Re: Finding the dump

[Stefan Monnier]

>> - I wonder what distributions like Debian will say about having a .pdmp
>>   file in /usr/bin (AFAICT they normally only have executable files in
>>   there).  While we can let them hack their solution if they want to
>>   keep the dumps elsewhere, maybe we should directly add support for
>>   having dumps elsewhere since that might be useful in general.
>
> IMHO there should be an option to change the default dump name
> (argv0_base in load_pdump) in the exec-directory, so that you can have
> multiple configurations of emacs sharing the same installation prefix.

Not completely sure what you mean by that: if you rename `emacs` to
`emacs-foo` then you need to rename `emacs.pdmp` to
`emacs-foo.pdmp` already.

But that reminds me of another direction: could we make the .pdmp images
executable (via a shebang)?


        Stefan