From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: dump-emacs not compatible with toolbar-mode
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 23:18:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66b7e34b050809201846dc1abc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66b7e34b050809201369b8c03c@mail.gmail.com>
I should also mention that this happens even if the particular image
to be loaded is not toolbar/new.xpm. I use that in bug_trap simply
because that's what Emacs was choking on. Once Emacs is running,
though, it can load new.xpm and any other valid XPM I've tried without
issue.
On 8/9/05, Bill Atkins <batkins57@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a bug that arises when using dump-emacs to preload your
> Emacs. It seems that if the function find-image is called at any time
> before the dump, starting the dumped image will result in an error and
> startup will halt.
>
> I just checked out a fresh copy of Emacs and built it a few hours ago,
> to make sure the problem is not limited to my own snapshot.
>
> Here is the command line I'm using to dump the image:
>
> ./src/emacs -q --batch --load bug_trap --execute "(dump-emacs
> \"resmacs\" \"src/emacs\")"
>
> Here are the contents of the bug_trap file:
> ------
> (setq debug-on-error t)
>
> (find-image '((:type xpm :file "toolbar/new.xpm" :ascent center)))
> -------
>
> Since certain packages call find-image directly or indirectly, there
> are other ways to trigger the error. For instance, loading
> php-mode.el or time.el before dumping will yield identical results.
>
> Here is a backtrace of the error (this results from running "./resmacs -q"):
>
> -------
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid image specification")
> image-mask-p((image :type xpm :file "/home/bill/emacs/lisp/toolbar/new.xpm"))
> tool-bar-local-item-from-menu(find-file "new" (keymap) nil)
> apply(tool-bar-local-item-from-menu find-file "new" (keymap) nil nil)
> tool-bar-add-item-from-menu(find-file "new")
> tool-bar-setup()
> tool-bar-mode(1)
> command-line()
> normal-top-level()
> --------
>
> Again, this error _only_ occurs if find-image gets called before the
> dump. Also, the error does not occur in -nw mode; it only appears
> when run in X.
>
> I'd be happy to provide any clarification. Unfortunately, I'm not
> familiar enough with Emacs' internals to provide a patch.
>
> --
> Bill Atkins
>
--
Bill Atkins
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2005-08-10 3:13 ` dump-emacs not compatible with toolbar-mode Bill Atkins
2005-08-10 3:18 ` Bill Atkins [this message]
2005-08-11 14:28 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-12 17:51 ` Romain Francoise
2005-08-13 14:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-14 10:11 ` Romain Francoise
2005-08-14 21:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
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