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Re: Finding the dump


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Finding the dump
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 04:55:35 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Actually, since exec-directory is versioned, there's no problem with
>> supporting emacs-X.Y.Z versions.  But I added a feature whereby
>> renaming the Emacs executable and the pdump file to have the same
>> basename will also work.
> This depends on argv[0] being accurate, though.

Given that there can be several dumps for a given `emacs` executable,
I think it would make a lot of sense to try and support the creation of
executable dumps (e.g. with a shebang which only needs to look for the
one-and-only corresponding `emacs` executable regardless of argv[0]).


        Stefan




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