On Sat, Aug 6, 2022, 8:57 AM Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 6, 2022, 2:07 AM Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've added another flag variable that allows me to turn off the ban on
>> implicit loading in dump mode.
>>
>
> The dump with all ~2500 ELN libraries loaded completed last night.
> Unfortunately during startup (before any frame opens) one of them is
> evaluating an expression with an argument that should never produce nil but
> somehow is nil.
> Fortunately I can now redump with just the offending library in
> site-load.  The error prints fairly quickly when run normally, but shared
> libraries evidently open a lot slower under GDB.
> Hopefully I'll get the same error with the smaller dump and be able to
> determine if there's an issue in the dump file, the dump loading, or
> something else.
>

It started up fine when I only explicitly added the one library with the
failing expression, and then again when I dumped after loading the original
list up to that library.
The good news is that emacs starts in a couple of seconds with 1198 ELN
files in the dump.  I haven't been able to compile with profiling enabled
on this system, but I can tell you that is a couple of orders of magnitude
faster than just loading them in .init.

Lynn