Dump failure for XEmacs 21.5 (beta31) on Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD writes:
I installed OS X 10.8 on my iMacs yesterday. XEmacs compiles and
links without an error. temacs runs and byte compiles the elisp
files. The build fails near the end when the dumped version of
XEmacs tries load and run -batch and the batch-update functions.
If you're using the most recent beta, you don't have this patch:
2011-11-27 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
* configure.ac:
Add "-Wl,-no_pie" to linker flags on Mac OS X Lion to disable ASLR
that breaks pdump.
* configure: Regenerate.
One way to go would be to use hg tip.
I recall reading somewhere that 10.8 would be unfriendly to
programs that dump and then try to run the dumped file. Perhaps
that is what is going on. Is there a way to configure so that
XEmacs does not create a dumped image and then to run temacs
instead?
AFAIK temacs is always present unless you delete it.
That way I could test the executable to see if it was
stable. Here is the only part of the crash report with usable data:
make check-temacs
in src to run the batch test suite (I don't think this works from
toplevel, you need to be in src). This should work, as it runs
loadup.el on the Lisp files (as below), not pdump_load on dumped Lisp.
/path/to/temacs -l $(LISP)/loadup.el run-temacs
to start up an interactive session.
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