From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Choi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:10:03 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3DE1D3DC.8030905@biobase.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038212034 11495 80.91.224.249 (25 Nov 2002 08:13:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:13:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18GENN-0002zG-00 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:13:53 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18GESs-0000sb-00 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:19:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18GEKy-0004El-00; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18GEJt-00020L-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18GEJj-0001fS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10] helo=pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18GEJi-0001a6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr4so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.107]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6400394HCS5F@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:10:04 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml8so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.152]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H64004H5HCSRD@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:10:04 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from owlbear.local.shawmail (h68-144-207-94.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.207.94]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6400I2GHCR40@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:10:04 -0700 (MST) In-reply-to: <3DE1D3DC.8030905@biobase.dk> Original-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Thorbj=F8rn_Ravn_Andersen?= User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 19 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9661 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9661 Thorbj=F8rn Ravn Andersen writes: > [...] As I have understood it from this list, the problem is with a > library call that exists solely for Emacs to be able to unexec, which > is to avoid a lengthy elisp initialization at each startup. >=20 > Is this still so complicated that it is almost impossible to do > "manually" by dumping and restoring the contents of the elisp engine > similar to what TeX does? >=20 > --=20 > Thorbj=F8rn Ravn Andersen Steven Tamm has found a solution to this problem. Please see his message posted earlier to the mailing list. Unexec for Mac OS X is implemented in unexmacosx.c. TeX writes out format files in a way that is different from how Emacs does unexec. For one the former are data files while the latter are executable files.