From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finding the dump Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:50:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83munr8jb1.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.org; posting-host="ciao.gmane.org:195.159.176.228"; logging-data="241834"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 16:51:34 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 1gmKoQ-0010p0-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:51:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37195 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKoP-00039x-NV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:51:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKnd-0002kQ-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKnZ-0001DS-VJ; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:50:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2110 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gmKnS-0004u8-FB; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:50:37 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:15:57 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:232636 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:15:57 -0500 > > The new pdumper code is very welcome, but of course it introduces some > regressions and new problems: > > - When I start my Emacs, it now says > > Loading loadup.el (source)... > dump mode: nil > [...] > > and goes on to (re)load the loadup.el instead of using the .pdmp file > > This is because I run my Emacs via a symlink, and load_pdump is not > careful to try and follow symlinks while looking for the .pdmp next to > the executable. I think we should try and handle the use case rather > than requiring the user to make a second matching symlink to the > pdmp file. This was already mentioned in passing in one of the bug reports. Please report a bug about this specifically. > - 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). emacs.pdmp should be installed in data-directory, so it should not be in /usr/bin, AFAIU. Daniel, please correct me if I'm wrong.