From: Bhavin Gandhi <bhavin7392@gmail.com>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>, eli@gnu.org
Cc: 52488@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52488: Try basename of agrv0's realpath for .pdmp lookup in libexecdir
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:54:23 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOn=hbd0XTZt8Q5Eb9HGwf_smNBcb4_ZuGysm2AdZrto0mQYsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c08b2030-87c0-24e3-2369-ec85700dcac5@cornell.edu>
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 01:12, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Why do you want that?
>
> Why do we want what?
Why do I want to have what this bug's title says, I was writing in a
question / answer form.
> Patches to support that are welcome, I think. We support several
> tricks people play with placing the binaries and the auxiliary files,
> but there could well be other possibilities.
>
> However, in general, keeping the .pdmp file in the same directory as
> the binary is not recommended, AFAIU, as that file is not an
> executable program. That path in the code exists mainly for running
> Emacs uninstalled, from the build tree.
That's what I felt when I chose this way of putting a .pdmp file alongside
the Emacs binary. Me from past was naive enough to not ask about it here
or explore more about it.
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 23:26, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On further reflection, I don't think the problem is symlink resolution for the
> .pdmp file. I think the problem is that load_pdmp doesn't look in libexecdir
> for a .pdmp file whose name matches the name of the emacs executable. For
> example, suppose I have a symlink /usr/bin/emacs that resolves to
> /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe. Then load_pdmp looks for /usr/bin/emacs-nox.pdmp, but
> it doesn't look for /usr/libexec/emacs/28.0.90/x86_64-pc-cygwin/emacs-nox.pdmp.
Indeed Ken, my initial message was trying to convey the same. It could
have been more clear (I should not draft bug reports just before
sleeping :P).
> I'm working on a patch to fix this.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-15 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-14 19:01 bug#52488: Try basename of agrv0's realpath for .pdmp lookup in libexecdir Bhavin Gandhi
2021-12-14 19:25 ` Bhavin Gandhi
2021-12-14 19:32 ` Ken Brown
2021-12-15 17:56 ` Ken Brown
2021-12-15 18:19 ` Glenn Morris
2021-12-15 18:53 ` Ken Brown
2021-12-15 22:08 ` Ken Brown
2021-12-19 12:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-19 15:26 ` Ken Brown
2021-12-23 13:48 ` Ken Brown
2021-12-23 13:50 ` Bhavin Gandhi
2021-12-15 18:24 ` Bhavin Gandhi [this message]
2021-12-15 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-14 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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