Bizarre issue with symbolic links

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Dec 13 23:11:10 EST 2007


Benson Margulies writes:

 > If I do:
 > 
 > ln -s /opt/xemacs/bin/xemacs /usr/local/bin
 > /usr/local/bin/xemacs

You need to link the dump file as well.  The binary looks for it in
the same place as the invocation name, not next to the binary's
realname.  Somebody was working on moving the dumpfile into the binary
but I don't recall what happened with that work.




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