From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finding the dump Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:17:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.org; posting-host="ciao.gmane.org:195.159.176.228"; logging-data="98151"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 16:17:20 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKHG-000PQ0-4L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:17:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKHF-00062i-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKH9-00062d-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:17:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKH8-0005Su-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:41947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKH8-0005ON-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id x0NFH4wC020205; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:17:04 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4BD01AE6E4; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:17:04 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:55:02 +0100") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6467=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6467> : inlines <6998> : streams <1810924> : uri <2784419> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:232630 Archived-At: >> - I wonder what distributions like Debian will say about having a .pdmp >> file in /usr/bin (AFAICT they normally only have executable files in >> there). While we can let them hack their solution if they want to >> keep the dumps elsewhere, maybe we should directly add support for >> having dumps elsewhere since that might be useful in general. > > IMHO there should be an option to change the default dump name > (argv0_base in load_pdump) in the exec-directory, so that you can have > multiple configurations of emacs sharing the same installation prefix. Not completely sure what you mean by that: if you rename `emacs` to `emacs-foo` then you need to rename `emacs.pdmp` to `emacs-foo.pdmp` already. But that reminds me of another direction: could we make the .pdmp images executable (via a shebang)? Stefan