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28.0.50; make install with native-comp branch

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 46790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46790: 28.1; Bug#46790 reintroduced; Was make install with native-comp
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:14:50 +0000

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

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
>> Cc: 46790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:19:32 +0000
>> 
>> >> > Error using execdir /usr/local/sbin/emacs-29.0.50/:
>> >> > emacs: /usr/local/sbin/emacs-29.0.50/../native-lisp/29.0.50-ca991e8a/preloaded/window-0d1b8b93-0c17e2d3.eln: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> >> 
>> >> Please tell:
>> >> 
>> >>  . what is the directory where you installed the Emacs binary, the one
>> >>    invoked when you start Emacs "normally"
>> >>  . if that binary is a symlink, how is the symlink defined (is the
>> >>    file itself a symlink or is the directory a symlink?), and where
>> >>    does that symlink point
>> >>  . what is the directory where you have the pdumper file, and what is
>> >>    its name
>> >>  . if the pdumper file is itself a symlink, please provide the same
>> >>    details as for the Emacs binary
>> >>  . where is the native-lisp/ directory with the *.eln files produced
>> >>    during the build
>> >> 
>> >> In each case, please show the full absolute name of the files I'm
>> >> asking about.
>> >
>> > In addition, please tell how you configured Emacs, i.e. please show
>> > the full command line with which you invoked the configure script.
>> 
>> ./configure CFLAGS='-O8' --with-mailutils --with-cairo --with-native-compilation
>
> I think that's the problem: installing the binary in a directory other
> than $execdir/bin needs to configure with --bindir accordingly set.
> Emacs built with native compilation records at build time the way to
> get to native-lisp/ directory starting from the directory where the
> Emacs binary is installed, so you must use --bindir at configure time
> to let the build process know where the binary will be installed.  It
> is no longer enough to set bindir only at "make install" time.
>
> Emacs 28.1, as released, could work without --bindir, but that was at
> a price of effectively dropping the support for --bindir
> configure-time switch, something I don't want to do, since it's a
> regression.
>
> So please try re-configuring with
>
>   ./configure CFLAGS='-O8' --bindir=/usr/local/sbin/emacs-29.0.50 --with-mailutils --with-cairo --with-native-compilation
>
> and tell if the problem is solved by that after you install the
> resulting binary.

Yes this fixed the problem.

Thanks.

-- 
Thierry

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