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29.0.50; Uninstalled emacs sends startup messages to stderr

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
Cc: 58073-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58073: 29.0.50; Uninstalled emacs sends startup messages to
 stderr
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 05:30:10 +0300

> From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
> Cc: 58073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 22:55:58 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> One problem with that approach is that the wrapper cannot be named
> >> "emacs".
> >
> > One thing I can suggest is to use the --dump-file=FILE command-line
> > option inside the script to direct Emacs to its .pdmp file.  If you
> > don't do that, Emacs tries to intuit it using the value of argv[0] it
> > receives from the OS, and I guess your naming somehow trips that?
> 
> Thanks for the hint, that might come in handy.  However, I think I made
> a mistake when testing earlier; it now works when the wrapper is named
> "emacs", despite not using --dump-file=FILE.
> 
> Please close, and sorry for the noise.

Done.

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