GNU bug report logs - #42790
[PATH] 27.1; Add version info into file name "emacs.pdmp" to avoid mismatch pdmp file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: <lin.sun <at> zoom.us>

Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 03:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, help, patch

Merged with 35503, 43050

Found in versions 27.0.50, 28.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #46 received at 42790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 42790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lin.sun <at> zoom.us
Subject: Re: bug#42790: [PATH] 27.1;
 Add version info into file name "emacs.pdmp" to avoid mismatch pdmp
 file
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:07:11 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org,  42790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  eliz <at> gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 20:03:57 -0500
> 
> I have also had problems with configure's transform argument being
> ignored for the pdmp file, and with the pdmp file not being found.
> 
> Here is a simple-minded proof-of-concept patch for installing the pdmp
> file with the fingerprint in the name. It needs cleaning up (compilation
> warnings; hexbuf stuff is awful; should look for FINGERPRINT.pdmp first,
> then fall back to less specific names, finishing with emacs.pdmp; etc).
> Hopefully people who know more about this stuff than me will feel like
> finishing this off...

I hope this gets cleaned up, because I think it would be good to have
this fixed for Emacs 27.2.

Volunteers are welcome.

TIA
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