>>>> "Lynn" == Lynn David Newton
<lynn.newton(a)cox.net> writes:
Lynn> Is it a true statement that I should just be able to compile
Lynn> xemacs, load it, and do another packages update, and that I
Lynn> shouldn't have to download and untar a sumo tarball?
Yes. Packages and core development are almost entirely decoupled now.
Lynn> $ xemacs
Lynn> xemacs ... temacs can only be run in -batch mode
Lynn> $ type xemacs
Lynn> xemacs is a tracked alias for /usr/local/bin/xemacs
I'm not sure what's going on here, but I assume it's a variant of the
"can't symlink" issue. The pdump'ed binary is not very smart about
where it finds the dump file, more or less looks in the concatenation
of argv[0] + ".dmp". (It's a little more fancy than that, but not
much.) In particular, I guess it doesn't chase symlinks and the like.
This is on the to-do list, but I've never actually looked at the code
yet.:-) If someone wants to ....
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