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

[Dieter Klünter]

rjhb at bb-c.de (Rainer J.H. Brandt) writes:

> 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
 
my bad,
i just complained about this warning.

Warning Warning!!!  Pure space overflow    !!!Warning Warning
(See the node Pure Storage in the Lisp manual for details.)

which lead to slow Gnus operation.
I just build my own Emacs-28.0.50 version, which solved the warning.

-Dieter

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