Re: xemacs 21.4.10 core dump during build
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson
<jas(a)extundo.com> writes:
Simon> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>> The nocombreloc issue was detected, look at your Installation.
Simon> But the only effect was to print a warning?
No, the effect is to add a linker flag that disables combreloc. This
is sufficient to make non-pdump XEmacs work fine with recent GNU ld.
It doesn't work with all ld's (mine is 2.13.90.0.10 20021010), so
detecting when it doesn't work and using pdump automatically seems
like a good idea to me.
Simon> Why not enable pdump instead?
It's slower to load, the last bug fixed in pdump was only a couple of
months ago, there are problems with executing XEmacs via symlinks, the
dump file is separate and therefore cosmetically ugly (not to mention
that it triggers security scans for strange files on the standard
PATH), and -z nocombreloc addresses the problem completely.
At least it gets XEmacs up and running, so it isn't worse than the
current situation where XEmacs doesn't build at all by default on
modern Linuxes.