From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regression in dump-emacs-portable
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:31:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bkls1hzn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM=F=bCXcq_H8otpKv+gO4iLevcghpJmvY8CpnikYh+i+BvyhA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Lynn Winebarger on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 08:22:56 -0500)
> From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 08:22:56 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 6:45 PM Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 10:34 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
> > > > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:05:00 -0500
> > > > Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> > > >
> > > > I do see something in the redumped emacs that seems like a bug to me. The process I use for creating the
> > > > dump uses the -Q flag. But some of the settings I see in "emacs -Q --dump-file ..." are not the ones I see
> > > > with just "emacs -Q". Some are pretty basic - menu-bar-mode, tool-bar-mode, global-font-lock-mode,
> > > > transient-mark-mode are all nil in the redumped process but not the baseline.
> > >
> > > That is exactly the problem with re-dumping: stuff that was
> > > initialized on the first start gets dumped, and then works differently
> > > when Emacs is restarted from the second dump.
> >
> > That appears to be a consequence of setting
> > custom-delayed-init-variables to t in startup, without saving a copy
> > to be restored by an after-pdump-load-hook. Those modes have an
> > init-value expression involving "(not noninteractive)" that is
> > evaluated during batch mode startup but not in the post-redump
> > startup.
> Something like this (untested):
> diff --git a/lisp/custom.el b/lisp/custom.el
> index 0522bdd447b..c16bc8f8560 100644
> --- a/lisp/custom.el
> +++ b/lisp/custom.el
> @@ -138,6 +138,19 @@ custom-delayed-init-variables
> "List of variables whose initialization is pending until startup.
> Once this list has been processed, this var is set to a non-list value.")
>
> +(defvar custom-pdumped-delayed-init-variables nil
> + "List of all variables whose initialization will be pending until
> +a startup following a redump. This list is prepended to
I don't understand what will this solve. Why does it matter when
exactly is a variable initialized, if in any case that will happen
before re-dumping?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-17 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-13 0:51 Regression in dump-emacs-portable Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-14 1:13 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-14 23:26 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-15 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-16 9:31 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-16 9:54 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-16 15:05 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-16 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-16 23:45 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 13:22 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-02-17 23:44 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-18 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-21 14:21 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-23 2:41 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-23 13:21 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-16 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17 1:29 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 3:19 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 4:10 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 5:21 ` Po Lu
2023-02-17 12:57 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-23 15:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-02-23 22:32 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-25 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-25 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
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