Re: running ./temacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:19:13 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >>>>> [Hacking around this so that Vprocess_environment is initialized when
> >>>>> not dumping makes ./temacs work correctly]
> >>>> In case anyone wants to see the difference in behavior, here's the
> >>>> ugly hack:
> >>> Could you explain your code (i.e. why you need those strcmp hacks, why
> >>> you need to set&unset initialized, ...)?
> >> set_initial_environment only initializes Vprocess_environment if
> >> `initialized' is set.
> >
> > Do you happen to know why?
> 
> No idea.  I'd speculate that it's undesirable to initialize it when dumping...

Yes, probably.

I'd think it's cleaner to add an argument to set_initial_environment,
which then could tell it whether to initialize Vprocess_environment,
instead of intuiting that inside the function by looking at
`initialized' and CANNOT_DUMP.  We could then set that argument
non-zero when temacs is run with arguments other than "dump" or
"bootstrap".