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#44128
[feature/native-comp]; When invoking a symlink to the 'emacs' binary Emacs fails to start
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Reported by: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:00:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 47801
Found in version 28.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>> You mentioned that this happens because code in pdump[er].c just relies
>>> on invocation-directory and that you are wonder whether symlinks should
>>> be followed to address this.
>>>
>>> I think they should. :D
>>
>> Well I agree :)
>>
>> I believe the only question is if we want to change
>> `invocation-directory' to have the link followed or to do that in the
>> load mechanism. I guess the second has less impact.
>
> Hi all,
>
> I think this question got answered by Eli's comment on bug#46790 :)
>
> I've pushed 0c1fc9d581 that seams to work for me, please have a try.
This fixed it for me. Thanks!
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