intro: "OG" == Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com> writes:
Sorry for putting these silly questions ;( on the list.
They were simple enough to find answers by myself in a couple of minutes after
sending ;)
Thank you, Oliver and Michael, for your notice and answers.
Nick.
OG> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:33:38PM +0300, Nick V. Pakoulin wrote:
> intro: "NVP" == Nick V Pakoulin <npak(a)ispras.ru>
writes: Ok, i thought a
> little bit, looked at the Makefile and some understanding seems to come to
> my mind ...
>
> Building with pdump results in two files -- executable (temacs) and
> corresponding dumped lisp. Right?
OG> Right. "Ex-temacs", I'd say, since when you're pdumping there
is never
OG> any file called temacs. But sematically, yes, it's temacs.
> Then why not to keep dumped part somewhere under
${datadir}/${instvardir}/
> ?
OG> Where ${datadir}/${instvardir} is depends on where the executable is, was
OG> installed, whether there where any links, etc. XEmacs handling of this
OG> is quite complex in order to please everybody. This is computed in lisp.
OG> Said lisp code is in the dump file...
OG> OG.