APPROVE COMMIT NOTE: This patch has been committed. MC> Is there another (easier) solution or a shortcut that I've missed? I found a way to tell the compiler not to do ASLR. # HG changeset patch # User Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; # Date 1322579993 -3600 # Node ID e9f58d024c3ce7ea82f7061ac3ac30cd0ae26419 # Parent 2b2f37e84792bb91a5b974280235fd2743ed1a7f Disable ASLR on Mac OS X Lion. 2011-11-27 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; * configure.ac: Add "-Wl,-no_pie" to linker flags on Mac OS X Lion to disable ASLR that breaks pdump. * configure: Regenerate. diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog ＠＠ -1,3 +1,10 ＠＠ +2011-11-27 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; + + * configure.ac: + Add "-Wl,-no_pie" to linker flags on Mac OS X Lion to disable ASLR + that breaks pdump. + * configure: Regenerate. + 2011-11-21 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; * .hgignore: diff --git a/configure b/configure --- a/configure +++ b/configure ＠＠ -11845,6 +11845,18 ＠＠ fi fi +{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether ASLR needs to be disabled" >&5 +$as_echo_n "checking whether ASLR needs to be disabled... " >&6; } +case `uname -s`:`uname -r` in + Darwin:11.*) + { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5 +$as_echo "yes" >&6; } + LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-no_pie" && if test "$verbose" = "yes"; then echo " Appending \"-Wl,-no_pie\" to \$LDFLAGS"; fi + ;; + *) { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5 +$as_echo "no" >&6; } ;; +esac + { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for specified window system" >&5 $as_echo_n "checking for specified window system... " >&6; } diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac ＠＠ -2786,6 +2786,17 ＠＠ fi fi +dnl Disable ASLR on systems where it breaks pdump. +AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether ASLR needs to be disabled]) +case `uname -s`:`uname -r` in + dnl Mac OS X 10.7 Lion + Darwin:11.*) + AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) + XE_APPEND([-Wl,-no_pie], LDFLAGS) + ;; + *) AC_MSG_RESULT(no) ;; +esac + dnl ---------------------- dnl Choose a window system dnl ---------------------- -- Marcus _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches