Issue85

classification
Title Bizarre issue with symbolic links
Type defect Module core documentation
Severity inconvenience Platform N/A
Keywords needs doc Nosy List
explanation
process
These controls should only be changed by committers and tracker administrators.
Status done/needs work   Reason
Superseder   Submitted 2007-12-14.04:11:10
Priority normal   Assigned To

Created on 2008-01-19.04:58:04 by stephen, last changed 2008-05-03.08:23:30 by graaff.

Messages
msg714 [hidden] ([hidden]) Date: 2008-05-03.08:23:30
This may be an occurance of issue 354, although it is not
clear from the report if it is actually the symbolic links
missing, or the optimization problem causing the dump file not
to be found.
msg457 [hidden] ([hidden]) Date: 2008-01-22.07:58:21
See also issue185.
msg285 [hidden] ([hidden]) Date: 2008-01-19.06:43:08
  Message-ID: <18274.28265.233708.143038@parhasard.net>
Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > Benson Margulies writes:
 > 
 >  > If I do:
 >  > 
 >  > ln -s /opt/xemacs/bin/xemacs /usr/local/bin
 >  > /usr/local/bin/xemacs
 > 
 > You need to link the dump file as well.  The binary looks for it in
 > the same place as the invocation name, not next to the binary's
 > realname.  Somebody was working on moving the dumpfile into the binary
 > but I don't recall what happened with that work.

It was merged, but is off by default with the new allocator and garbage
collector, since there it involves reading the dump file into memory twice.
msg103 [hidden] ([hidden]) Date: 2008-01-19.04:58:04
  Message-ID: <877ijhex0h.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Benson Margulies writes:

 > If I do:
 > 
 > ln -s /opt/xemacs/bin/xemacs /usr/local/bin
 > /usr/local/bin/xemacs

You need to link the dump file as well.  The binary looks for it in
the same place as the invocation name, not next to the binary's
realname.  Somebody was working on moving the dumpfile into the binary
but I don't recall what happened with that work.

_______________________________________________
XEmacs-Beta mailing list
XEmacs-Beta@xemacs.org
http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta
History
Date User Action Args
2008-05-03 08:23:30graaffsetmessages: + msg714
2008-01-22 08:00:14stephenlinkissue185 superseder
2008-01-22 07:58:21stephensetstatus: chatting -> done/needs work
priority: normal
severity: inconvenience
keyword: + needs doc
platform: + N/A
type: defect
messages: + msg457
module: + core documentation
2008-01-19 06:43:08aidansetstatus: new -> chatting
messages: + msg285
2008-01-19 04:58:04stephencreate