Re: xemacs 21.4.10 core dump during build

Simon> It doesn't work with all ld's (mine is 2.13.90.0.10 Simon> 20021010), so detecting when it doesn't work and using Simon> pdump automatically seems like a good idea to me. It _does_ work with that version of binutils (I have the same version), as long as you don't have glibc 2.3. The combreloc crash is quite consistent, across many different configurations of XEmacs, and this is not it. It is possible that ld is involved, but because of its effect on glibc, not on XEmacs. Simon> At least it gets XEmacs up and running, so it isn't worse Simon> than the current situation where XEmacs doesn't build at Simon> all by default on modern Linuxes. It is if there's a heisenbug lurking that allows pdump builds to start and run, but eventually will eat someone's precious data. We have _no idea_ what this bug is, only a slight presumption that it's related to glibc 2.3. Defaulting to pdump is what I plan to do, but I'm asking the glibc people to confirm that it is probably unexec-related first. I plan to promote 21.4.11 to stable, but I _cannot_ do that if my only fix is a magic spell that nobody understands. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.