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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Handling of links with portable dumper
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:00:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1hDcJX-0001OE-QR@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17ec5b0b6f1f86796561ff9a40612068.squirrel@dancol.org>

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  > >> Put ~/bin in your path.  Make a symlink from ~/bin/emcs to the
  > >> executable
  > >> of Emacs that you built from master.

  > I broke it, so I'll buy it. I'll fix this. Paul, is there something in
  > gnulib I can just link to?

I don't know about gnulib, but if you look at the code that sets
up Vinstallation_directory, also in emacs.c, you can see how it
calls readlink.  It should work to copy and adapt that code.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-08 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-04 22:39 Handling of links with portable dumper Richard Stallman
2019-04-05  5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-05 22:32   ` Richard Stallman
2019-04-06  6:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-06 23:24       ` Richard Stallman
2019-04-07  2:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-07 17:04           ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-07 17:44             ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-07 22:07               ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-04-08  4:04                 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2019-04-08  4:08                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-07 18:15             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-08 22:00             ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-04-06 22:29     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-07 21:58       ` Richard Stallman

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