Re: NEWS update 2000-03-17
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:41:09PM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
This is all very experimental, though. Configure with `--pdump'
to
-try testing it. NOTE: it is expected that `make' will fail after
-dumping `xemacs.dmp'. This is because Makefiles have not yet been
-modified to not expect `temacs' producing an `xemacs' executable. You
-can try it out by simply running `src/temacs'. If it starts without
-failure, the portable dumping worked.
-
-#### NOTE: the portable dumper is not really usable yet, because the
-state of built-in variables is not yet saved. Olivier promised to fix
-it. Nag, nag.
+try testing it. NOTE: the Makefile hackery needed to support portable
+dumping might be unfinished at the time of writing this. If `make'
+fails after writing `xemacs.dmp', you can still try running `temacs'.
+The failure can be due to Makefiles bogusly expecting `temacs' to
+produce an `xemacs' executable. #### Has this been fixed?
It has. The Makefile hackery is finished (for unix, at least, I'd be
surprised that --pdump even compiles on windows) for one particular
definition of finished. I.e., I currently disagree with Martin on the
naming of the dump file (or on whether there should be a dump file in
the first place actually) so it is probably going to change again in
the future, but right now there shouldn't be any more failures.
Incidentally, if --pdump, there is no temacs executable produced
anymore.
OG.