Re: Cannot start as "emacs"

Kriston> When "emacs" is symbolically-linked to "xemacs", XEmacs Kriston> fails to start and instead gives this error: Known problem. You can only do links within the same directory for an XEmacs configured --pdump. I don't know if this can be fixed for softlinks (it can be done in principle, but I don't want to mess with the initialization code in 21.4); it cannot be fixed for hardlinks. Workaround: link the dump file in the same place. So if you have ~/emacs -> /tmp/xemacs/src/xemacs-21.4.8 You need DUMPID=`/tmp/xemacs/src/xemacs-21.4.8 -sd` ~/emacs-21.4.8-$DUMPID.dmp -> /tmp/xemacs/src/xemacs-21.4.8-$DUMPID.dmp Ugly, but it's the best we can do for now. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py