Re: xemacs-21.1.14

Troy> # bind (frame-being-created) Troy> make-frame(nil #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x1a13>) Troy> frame-initialize() SJT> Ah, you have the "Hannibal Lector" release of GNU ld. It now slices SJT> and dices your executable for you by default, confusing the Emacs SJT> build process. That Lisp backtrace at startup is the usual symptom on SJT> Linux. SJT> On 21.4.6 and later in 21.4 series, and 21.5.4 and later, this is SJT> normally autodetected. For 21.1.14 Not everywhere. SJT> LDFLAGS='-z nocombreloc' SJT> in your environment (adjust to fit previous settings) should work. Unfortunately, some Linux systems (SuSE 7.3) are using an ld that has the new evil -z combreloc option, but doesn't document it in ld --help $ ld --help ... -z defs Disallows undefined symbols -z initfirst Mark DSO to be initialized first at runtime -z interpose Mark object to interpose all DSOs but executable -z loadfltr Mark object requiring immediate process -z nodefaultlib Mark object not to use default search paths -z nodelete Mark DSO non-deletable at runtime -z nodlopen Mark DSO not available to dlopen -z nodump Mark DSO not available to dldump -z now Mark object non-lazy runtime binding -z origin Mark object requiring immediate $ORIGIN processing at runtime -z KEYWORD Ignored for Solaris compatibility ... $ strings `which ld` | grep combreloc combreloc nocombreloc $ ld --version GNU ld 2.11.90.0.29 ... Now, the latest binutils snapshot _DOES_ include the help string we're looking for in configure.in, so this problem will go away real soon. Even though this bug affects me personally, I recommend not fixing it, since no one should be using a pre-release binutils, and because it's hard to come up with a portable fix. E.g. you could try PAGER=cat man ld | grep nocombreloc but what if the man pages aren't installed? You could try strings `which ld` | grep nocombreloc but what if there's a csh dot file config error or strings isn't installed? However, an addition to PROBLEMS, perhaps mentioning SuSE 7.3 specifically, might be a good idea.