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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 34180@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: bug#34180: 27.0.50; argv[0] used incorrectly to find the .pdmp
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 08:10:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d30902b6-1c70-77c2-3a34-af73a2536af2@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnmjhd6j.fsf@gnus.org>

On 10/11/21 7:02 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> It looks like find_executable from progreloc in gnulib provides a
> portable interface for this?

It does, although it drags in a bunch of other Gnulib modules, as this 
stuff is wildly system-dependent.

For ordinary Emacs installation, I've long thought that a better 
approach is to store the default .pdmp file as a readonly char array 
within the Emacs executable itself. This would be easier for installers, 
sysadmins and users, as it would entail no funny rules about installing 
two files, keeping them in sync, symlinks, PATH, argv[0], relative 
names, security, etc.

Perhaps native compilation effectively does this for us already? If so, 
then the fix for this bug report would be "use native compilation".





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-11 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-23 16:07 bug#34180: 27.0.50; argv[0] used incorrectly to find the .pdmp Stefan Monnier
2019-01-27  3:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-27 15:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 14:02     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-11 14:04       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-11 15:10       ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2021-10-11 16:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 20:13         ` Daniel Colascione
2021-10-12  0:51           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-12 10:51           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 11:54             ` Philipp Stephani
2021-10-12 11:59               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 14:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 15:54       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-12 10:48         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-11 21:16       ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-12 12:27 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-10-12 16:24   ` Daniel Colascione
2021-10-12 16:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-12 16:59     ` Mattias Engdegård

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