Re: build failure of 21.4.8 with latest gcc-3.1.1-4 under cygwin
>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper
<andy(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>> I just tried rebuilding xemacs-21.4.8 (which builds perfectly
>> under gcc-2.95.3-9) under gcc-3.1.1-4 / cygwin-1.3.12-4 and got
>> the following errors leaving behind an emacs.exe with 0 bytes.
>>
>> Any hints ??
Andy> I'm guessing this might be the "Hannibal Lecter [?]" problem
Andy> whic -z norecombloc [?] might fix.
Stephen> I agree, given that the order of ELF sections is in question.
Stephen> However, it's odd that configure wouldn't pick it up if the
binutils
Stephen> is reasonably fresh (>= 2.12).
It seems to be:
ld --version
GNU ld version 2.12.90 20020706
Stephen> ./configure --ldflags='-z nocombreloc' ...
This gives
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -z nocombreloc) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create
executables.
Stephen> OR
but
Stephen> ./configure --pdump ...
this one works fine. At least the test suite gives 100% success.
Stephen> may help.
I'll give this version a try.
Thanks
Volker