Subject: Re: bug#34707: Failure to find the associated pdump file

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:07:32 -0400

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  > Running ~/src/emacs/trunk/src/emacs directly works, but it's not
  > uncommon to have symlinks to the binary (somebody else just complained
  > to me about this)...  When Emacs is able to find the rest of itself,
  > it's odd that it's not finding the pdump file, surely?

The code to find the Lisp files handles the symlink case,
and it still works just as it has worked for years.

However, finding the pdump file uses new code,
and that code doesn't try to handle this symlink case.

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