[OpenIndiana-discuss] Emacs-27.1 missing portable dumper file

[Rainer J.H. Brandt]

Hi Dieter,

you wrote:
> rjhb at bb-c.de (Rainer J.H. Brandt) writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Dieter Klünter writes:
> >> Reading Emacs Manual gives the impression that building Emacs-27.1 a 
> >> emacs.pdmp dump file is created. On start Emacs requires this emacs.pdmp.
> >> 
> >> Can  somebody check this?
> >
> > I built 27.1 under Solaris 11.3 today
> > (Sorry, my OI build setup isn't ready yet)
> > and it created this file:
> >
> > $BASEDIR/libexec/emacs/27.1/i386-pc-solaris2.11/emacs.pdmp
> >
> > Emacs still starts after removing this file, but it takes much longer,
> > and lots of elisp files are processed during startup.
> >
> > Cheers, Rainer
> 
> Today I have built Emacs from sources
> (git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git)
> 
> make install copied  the emacs binary to /usr/local/bin and emacs.pdmp
> to /usr/local/lib/emacs/27.0.1/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/emacs.pdmp
> 
> Knowing the path to  pdmp file, speeds up the start remarkably.
> 
> You might try bootstrap-emacs form your build.

Why?  I have no problem with emacs.pdmp and emacs starts quickly.
I only described what happens after manual removal of the file
because you asked whether someone could check if it is needed.

Regards, Rainer