From a clean environment and emacs install the window and emacs.pdmp files are at the following locations /home/wilhelm/src/tools/emacs/native-lisp/28.0.50-864bf4e5/preloaded/window-0d1b8b93-dcb2375f.eln /usr/local/lib/emacs/28.0.50/native-lisp/28.0.50-864bf4e5/preloaded/window-0d1b8b93-dcb2375f.eln /home/wilhelm/src/tools/emacs/src/emacs.pdmp /usr/local/libexec/emacs/28.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/emacs.pdmp evaluating the relative pathing, it ends up at /usr/local/native-lisp/28.0.50-864bf4e5/preloaded/window-0d1b8b93-dcb2375f.eln the same install process worked about 2 months ago, so I can possibly try to find the commit where it still worked On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:56 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Wilhelm Kirschbaum > > Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 07:42:06 +0200 > > > > ./autogen.sh > > ./configure --with-mailutils --with-native-compilation > > sudo make install > > src/emacs -Q -> works as expected > > emacs -Q -> > > Error using execdir > /usr/local/libexec/emacs/28.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/../../../../bin/: > > emacs: > > > /usr/local/libexec/emacs/28.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/../../../../bin/../native-lisp/28.0.50-864bf4e5/preloaded/window-0d1b8b93-dcb2375f.eln: > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Could it be that the emacs.pdmp file is installed in the wrong place, > and that confuses Emacs at startup? The emacs.pdmp file should be in > /usr/local/libexec/emacs/28.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ > > And where do you have the file window-0d1b8b93-dcb2375f.eln there? on > your system? can you show the full absolute file names of all of its > copies you have? >