Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Does anyone remember _why_ temacs segfaults on startup unless we give ld this
> option?

It doesn't segfault for me, even when I build with -zcombreloc. I think 
-znocombreloc worked around bugs in now-obsolete versions of the GNU linker. 
See, for example:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2004-02/msg00278.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2003-05/msg00627.html

Looking at recent GCC documentation it appears that this old hack should not 
matter now, so I'm inclined to remove it, as in the proposed patch (attached), 
which I tested on Fedora 24 x86-64 but have not installed.