Re: Handling of links with portable dumper

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2019-04-07 13:44, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> I still think it'd be better to put the dump into the executable
>> itself, which can be done portably simply by linking a big C
>> character array into the executable. in the long run this will be
>> better for users (and for us) than fiddling with portability
>> minefields like set_program_name_and_installdir.
>
> Does that mean also rewriting the full binary when we rewrite the dump?

I would assume that when the executable was built it would be dumped
with the dump file created at that time, but that that emacs could load
a different dump file than the one built into it.  I don't see a good
portable way to re-make the executable after the fact absent going back
to the source build, though.

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Michael Welsh Duggan
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