From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finding the dump Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 04:55:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83munr8jb1.fsf@gnu.org> <838szb8ey9.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0oj62bc.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef8z4g1m.fsf@igel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="234395"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 27 10:58:12 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 1gnhCe-000yr5-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:58:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnhCd-00008w-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 04:58:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnhAK-0007NA-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 04:55:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnhAJ-0002fm-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 04:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58506 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnhAJ-0002fM-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 04:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnhAH-000w09-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:55:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:xPXfPp0QUUoX5K8kJnqmsNkiRao= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:232715 Archived-At: >> Actually, since exec-directory is versioned, there's no problem with >> supporting emacs-X.Y.Z versions. But I added a feature whereby >> renaming the Emacs executable and the pdump file to have the same >> basename will also work. > This depends on argv[0] being accurate, though. Given that there can be several dumps for a given `emacs` executable, I think it would make a lot of sense to try and support the creation of executable dumps (e.g. with a shebang which only needs to look for the one-and-only corresponding `emacs` executable regardless of argv[0]). Stefan