From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: finding the pdmp file again Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 12:32:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="16433"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Madhu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 27 12:33:19 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 1hVCwM-00040v-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 12:33:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43347 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVCwL-0007D0-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 06:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVCve-0007Cu-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 06:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVCvd-0000CH-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 06:32:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36714 helo=mx1.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVCvc-00009t-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 06:32:28 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CC5AC20; Mon, 27 May 2019 10:32:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: I wish I was on a Cincinnati street corner holding a clean dog! In-Reply-To: (Madhu's message of "Sun, 26 May 2019 12:21:47 +0530") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 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:237038 Archived-At: On Mai 26 2019, Madhu wrote: > How about the following changes to the way emacs finds the pdmp file: > > The existing algorithm remains unchanged as far as how the pdmp files > are named and the order in which they are looked up. But when emacs > tries to guess the pdmp location, it does not fail if it finds a bad > pdmp signature but it continues searching. (This would accomodate > having multiple variants of the same emacs installed on the system: > eg. /usr/bin/emacs-nox, /usr/bin/emacs-motif, /usr/bin/emacs-athena ...) It would much easier if emacs would look for emacs-FINGERPRINT.pdmp. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."