From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Handling of links with portable dumper Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:00:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83imvtc8jb.fsf@gnu.org> <83a7h3bq73.fsf@gnu.org> <834l7aa650.fsf@gnu.org> <17ec5b0b6f1f86796561ff9a40612068.squirrel@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="119066"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Daniel Colascione" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 09 00:01:41 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hDcKj-000UsV-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:01:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59593 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDcKi-0005xo-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDcJk-0005vf-C9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDcJi-00031U-La; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hDcJX-0001OE-QR; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:00:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <17ec5b0b6f1f86796561ff9a40612068.squirrel@dancol.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235134 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >> 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)