From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Handling of links with portable dumper Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 10:44:16 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <83imvtc8jb.fsf@gnu.org> <83a7h3bq73.fsf@gnu.org> <834l7aa650.fsf@gnu.org> <17ec5b0b6f1f86796561ff9a40612068.squirrel@dancol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="189999"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 07 19:45:05 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 1hDBqr-000nId-EZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:45:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41785 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBqq-0000Ny-F1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBqG-0000Nt-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBqE-0002yw-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:40376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBqC-0002wc-1M; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2882E161626; Sun, 7 Apr 2019 10:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id PvKFMRYiFcAQ; Sun, 7 Apr 2019 10:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F904161643; Sun, 7 Apr 2019 10:44:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id yZY3ktHEeeeI; Sun, 7 Apr 2019 10:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 43DC7161613; Sun, 7 Apr 2019 10:44:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <17ec5b0b6f1f86796561ff9a40612068.squirrel@dancol.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:235076 Archived-At: Daniel Colascione wrote: > Paul, is there something in > gnulib I can just link to? Sorry, I've lost context. What function do you want? canonicalize_file_name? set_program_name_and_installdir? I'm not a big fan of the latter, as it's a portability heavyweight (it makes lots of assumptions and might not be applicable to Emacs). I still think it'd be better to put the dump into the executable itself, which can be done portably simply by linking a big C character array into the executable. in the long run this will be better for users (and for us) than fiddling with portability minefields like set_program_name_and_installdir.