Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ken Raeburn <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 04:25:19 -0400
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> I have a patch which seems to recreate all the abbrev tables that were in the 
> initial Emacs process, including the sharing (lisp-mode-abbrev-table being a 
> parent of emacs-lisp-mode-abbrev-table; local-abbrev-table set to the 
> fundamental mode table).  Please let me know if it fixes your problem.

Sorry for the long delay: Life™ intervened big time...

> It depends on a couple key things: (1) The abbrev tables are empty at that 
> point, so we don’t have to worry about reconstructing all the abbrevs in a 
> table; this can be fixed, it’s just tedious. (2) Abbrev-table values are only 
> used as symbol values, or parents of other abbrev tables.  This is much 
> harder.  Stefan’s printable replacement for obarrays would probably be a 
> better solution.  Though, normally I’d expect people to want printing of an 
> obarray to show symbol names, and for this use case we need the function, 
> value, and plist data as well.

I applied your patch, and while dumping I get an error message:

  Dumping into dumped.elc...preparing...
  Dumping into dumped.elc...generating...
  Symbol's function definition is void: cl-labels

and dumped.elc is not re-created.  What did I miss?