Re: Tabs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Cc: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:08:55 +0300
> 
> > The empty boxes seem to indicate that Emacs is unable to load the
> > icons for closing and opening tabs, they should be displayed instead
> > of the empty boxes.  If you are running an installed Emacs, perhaps
> > "make install" have a bug whereby it doesn't install the tab-related
> > images?
> 
> The problem is that tab-bar.el is pre-loaded by loadup.el and
> dumped with the value of data-directory from the source location.
> So running from the dump file even in the install directory
> still uses source data-directory.

Why can't you compute the value at run time, rather than at dump time?
Like the first time the tab bar is activated?