From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Ponce Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unable to bootstrap GNU Emacs 21.3 (SOLVED) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:11:25 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F9EE98D.80502@wanadoo.fr> References: <26751439.1067251666023.JavaMail.www@wwinf0203> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067379776 30124 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 22:22:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 23:22:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEcEn-0007Fx-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:22:53 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEcEn-0000NM-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:22:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEcEk-0001R0-HT for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEcEJ-0001QN-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:22:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEc3R-0005If-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.252.22.30] (helo=mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEc1K-0004BC-Qa; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:08:58 -0500 Original-Received: from wanadoo.fr (AGrenoble-102-1-4-118.w80-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.14.24.118]) by mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 8E800C00025F; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:08:57 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031025 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17528 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17528 Richard Stallman wrote: > Exec-shield functionality is available only to binaries that have been > built (and marked) using the toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker) > available with Fedora [...]" > > those words are disturbing. what toolchain is this? > is it a version of gcc? is it free sw? It is the gcc (3.3.2)/glibc (2.3.2) toolchain associated to the Fedora Linux kernel (2.4.22). > The problem is that Exec-shield enables a different memory layout that > breaks the emacs dumper. > > cd you write an etc/PROBLEMS entry about this? > I can try to write something. However I am not sure to be able to explain what is exactly Exec-shield nor how it impacts the Emacs dumper. Perhaps there is a GNU/Linux and Emacs dumper guru there that could help? David