Re: [Bug: 21.5-b21] dump-emacs dies for mature xemacs image

Darryl> It's not a matter of saving some trivial amount of Darryl> disk space -- it's a matter of being able to do it at all. Darryl> Note that, for some systems, unexec doesn't work, and so Darryl> pdump has to be used. Now, if you have root access, and Darryl> you're the only one using the workstation, there's Darryl> probably no problem; you just rebuild XEmacs using the Darryl> current procedures (but also include additional stuff via Darryl> site-load, etc.). However, if you don't have root access, Darryl> or are on a multi-user system, then specifying a pdump Darryl> image is the only way (which you currently cannot do). Steve Baur claimed it was possible (ie, under unexec) to do something like cd ~ mkdir bin cd bin cp /path/to/system/temacs ./temacs ./temacs $DUMPOPTIONS dump and have a private version of xemacs built in your personal ~/bin. I would think that would be possible here, too. I'm sure it would require tweaking dumped-lisp.el and friends to load the LISP from the installed location rather than a source tree. (This is another case where it would be nice to be able to use the preloaded LISP rather than having to search for it on disk.) Darryl> Yup, this is a definite problem, and there's Darryl> currently no solution for this. I think the solution is to copy the executable, too. If something like the above can be made to work, we could provide a script for it. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.