GNU bug report logs - #44128
[feature/native-comp]; When invoking a symlink to the 'emacs' binary Emacs fails to start

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pRoMMMModE <at> outlook.com
Subject: Re: bug#47801: 28.0.50; [native-comp] could not resolve realpath
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:59:16 -0500

forcemerge 44128 47801
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: pRoMMMModE <at> outlook.com
>> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:20:24 +0800
>>
>> Dear emacs developers:
>>
>> I recently compiled emacs from commit 95dd6bb08038e31515568943dcfae13afac8ff70,
>> after sudo make install I enter emacs in terminal but it gives an error
>> then quit:
>>
>> -----
>> emacs: could not resolve realpath of "emacs": No such file or directory
>> -----
>>
>> I notice that emacs is just a symlink to /usr/local/bin/emacs-28.0.50,
>> but after I type emacs-28.0.50 in and hit enter it give me a similar
>> error:
>>
>> -----
>> emacs: could not resolve realpath of "emacs-28.0.50": No such file or directory
>> -----
>>
>> path /usr/local/bin is in my PATH variable, and run emacs with absolute
>> path /usr/local/bin/emacs is working, also the last version I compiled
>> is from commit b064ddd3f600ed28e62b09d556ecced5f80d9883 and that version
>> dose not have this issue.
>
> I think this is a duplicate of bug#44128, in its latest incarnation.

Merged.

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