Re: Xemacs crashs on start

Thomas> I have littel problem to start an self-compiled Thomas> xemacs. Without '--ldflags=-s -znocombreloc' Xemacs crashs on Thomas> start. Stephen> This is no problem, it's a feature. Of GNU ld. Stephen> ld now rearranges reloc sections of (ie, trashes) the dumped Stephen> xemacs by default. -znocombreloc is necessary for all Stephen> unexec'd applications (XEmacs and GNU Emacs are the only Stephen> ones I know of). You can also use --pdump. Stephen> I don't know what the -s does, but the -znocombreloc is Stephen> autoconfiscated. You should not see this behavior in Stephen> 21.4.6, nor in Stephen> Please send your Installation file and config.log output so Stephen> we can figure out what went wrong. The autoconf stuff doesn't seem to work on powerpc. It's compiler/binutils suite stuff still seems to be different than the went. Also included is a patch that fixes a problem with athena widget sensing. Not sure why this doesn't work by default (this is all on debian) 2002-01-07 James LewisMoss <dres(a)debian.org&gt; * configure.in (XE_COMPUTE_RUNPATH): Change nocombeloc arg from "-z nocombreloc" to "-Xlinker -znocombreloc" --- xemacs21-21.4.6.orig/configure.in +++ xemacs21-21.4.6/configure.in ＠＠ -348,7 +348,7 ＠＠ with_site_modules='yes' with_menubars='' with_scrollbars='' -with_widgets='' +with_widgets='athena' with_dialogs='' with_file_coding='' cpp='' cppflags='' libs='' ldflags='' ＠＠ -2526,10 +2526,10 ＠＠ dnl #### Should make this Solaris-friendly. dnl Link with -z nocombreloc for now. if test "$pdump" != "yes"; then - AC_MSG_CHECKING(for \"-z nocombreloc\" linker flag) + AC_MSG_CHECKING(for \"-Xlinker -znocombreloc\" linker flag) case "`ld --help 2>&1`" in *-z\ nocombreloc* ) AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) - XE_PREPEND(-z nocombreloc, ld_switch_site) ;; + XE_PREPEND(-Xlinker -znocombreloc, ld_switch_site) ;; *) AC_MSG_RESULT(no) ;; esac fi ＠＠ -4859,7 +4859,7 ＠＠ echo " Relocating allocator for buffers: $rel_alloc" echo " GNU version of malloc: ${GNU_MALLOC}${GNU_MALLOC_reason}" case "$ld_switch_site" in - *nocombreloc*) echo " Linking with \`-z nocombreloc'. + *nocombreloc*) echo " Linking with \`-Xlinker -znocombreloc'. - Consider configuring with --pdump." ;; esac -- ＠James LewisMoss <dres(a)debian.org&gt; | Blessed Be! ＠ http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! ＠"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach