Unable to bootstrap GNU Emacs 21.3 (segfault)
Jakub Jelinek
jakub at redhat.com
Sun Oct 26 21:27:36 UTC 2003
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:15:00PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>
> >
> > 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?
>
Emacs has very broken dumper doing assumptions it should not do.
So e.g. any address space randomizations confuses it to death.
I think setarch i386 make ... should turn off randomization for
make and all its children, so emacs could have a chance to build.
Jakub
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