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Subject: Re: `exec shield' test in configure too strict?
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>>> and so emacs refuses to configure -- but if disable this test by 
>>> doing:
>>>
>>>   $ make ac_cv_file__proc_sys_kernel_exec_shield=no
>>>
>>> Then Emacs configures and dumps just fine, despite not using 
>>> `setarch'.
>>
>> Does that machine have a /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize file?
>
> Yes:
>
>    $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize
>    1
>
>> It is the random start address of the heap that makes dumping fail.
>>

I have checked in a test that runs a program and sees if the heap start
address is random.  Can you try it on the Debian-with-a-Redhat-kernel
machine (I forgot its name)?

	Jan D.