Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21

[Jason Rumney]

Andrew Choi <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks.  Yes, that's probably the cause.  Unfortunately dynamically
> linked libraries are the only choice for using most of the "system
> frameworks" on Mac OS X.  I'm currently trying to determine whether some
> variables in the libraries are somehow unexec'ed along with the Emacs
> heap.  Of course this will cause a problem if the new libraries change
> the variables' locations.  There aren't many tools available to look
> into this.  But I'll figure out a way sooner or later.

In the case where this caused problems on Windows, it was because the
initialization of the dynamically loaded functions was happening only
when Emacs was dumped.  To work across OS updates, you need to make
sure that the initialization is run every time Emacs runs.