Unable to bootstrap GNU Emacs 21.3 (segfault)

[Bill Nottingham]

seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
> > Turn off exec-shield, it should work then.
> 
> What's happening that's triggering exec-shield? I thought exec-shield
> was configured so that only programs compiled to support it would use
> it, otherwise it left everything else alone. Is gcc built to use
> exec-shield?

Exec-shield enables a different memory layout that breaks the
emacs dumper, as I recall.

Bill