From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap error in c-mode with CANNOT_DUMP Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:01:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB6FC93-5A46-4E9F-89CC-94B78748B6A3@raeburn.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244955700 16799 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2009 05:01:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 14 07:01:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MFhqa-0003nd-W5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:01:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFhqa-0007RT-2m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFhqU-0007PE-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFhqP-0007Ll-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57595 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFhqP-0007Lh-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from raeburn.org ([69.25.196.97]:29706) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFhqN-0002ai-ES; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.172] ([10.0.0.172]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n5E51MFI008642; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:01:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111500 Archived-At: On Jun 14, 2009, at 00:56, Richard Stallman wrote: > If CANNOT_DUMP does not work, does that mean Emacs is broken on some > platforms? If so, it seems to me that fixing this is urgent. A > regression that entirely breaks certain platforms is as bad as it > gets. There are no platforms currently using that option. But it might mean porting to new platforms or other environments (e.g., using libguile) has a higher initial cost than necessary, if it requires making unexec work. Ken