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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
Cc: psainty <at> orcon.net.nz, eli <at> gnu.org, 44128 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: bug#44128: [feature/native-comp]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:08:00 +0300

> From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:21:47 +0200
> Cc: 44128 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eli <at> gnu.org
> 
> Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org> writes:
> 
> > I've pushed 0c1fc9d581 that seams to work for me, please have a try.
> 
> Unfortunately this still doesn't work (as of f9c1008ced):
> 
>   $ emacs
>   emacs: could not resolve realpath of "emacs": No such file or directory
>   $ which emacs
>   /usr/local/bin/emacs
>   $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/emacs
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 55 Apr 16 14:51 /usr/local/bin/emacs -> /home/jonas/git/src/emacs/feature
> 
> But this works:
> 
>   $ /home/jonas/git/src/emacs/feature/native-comp/src/emacs
> 
> And so does:
> 
>   $ cat /usr/local/bin/emacs
>   #!/bin/sh
>   /home/jonas/git/src/emacs/feature/native-comp/src/emacs "$@"
>   $ emacs

Thanks, I think I understand the issues, and I'm working on a fix.

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