Re: Finding the dump

[Paul Eggert]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jan 27 2019, Daniel Colascione<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Why not? Plenty of other programs do. Looking at realpath(argv[0]) is what
> > _everyone_  does.
> Which one?  They are all broken.

Andreas is quite right here. One cannot trust realpath (argv[0]).

This discussion is reminding me what a hassle that dump file is. I plan to look 
into the possibility of putting the dump file inside the executable (portably, 
of course) so that Emacs startup needn't worry about finding the dump file. This 
would be significantly better for installers and users.