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Subject: Re: emacs-19.34 segfauls when built with Xfree 4.3.0 (glibc 2.3.x,gcc
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> 
> |> (c) there doesn't seem to be any check for recent version (<14 months)
> |> of GNU ld (where the precise problem is)? or indeed, the presence of
> |> any version of GNU ld?
> 
> There is no need for it.

Why is that so? It isn't unthinkable that on a non-'GNU/Linux' system,
somebody installed a recent version of GNU binutils, and that
get used by gcc instead of the default ld, which in turn get used by
emacs. It is rare, I agree, and probably not worth the effort.