Re: `print' does not print

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Ralf Fassel wrote:

> * David Kaelbling
> | > Great, so it seems that the SGI-specific patch in unexelf.c is
> | > unnecessary and even dangerous, and should be taken out.
> | 
> | It wouldn't surprise me, but is that really what Ralf said?
> 
> I wasn't quite sure about that statement either.  I could not
> reproduce the problems the `.got' statements were meant to solve, but
> I'm not sure that this means that they might go away.  They might help
> in a different environment (which I obviously not have, since emacs
> works at my site w/o those statements).

We need to try to identify the environment where the `.got' sections need 
the special treatment they now have in unexelf.c.  Curiously enough, 
David's report was about Irix 6.5.14f and version 7.3.1.3m of development 
tools, so versions of Irix before 6.5.10 and version 7.2 of the compiler 
and the libraries seem to not be an issue in that case.

> What I have found is that you need an upgraded IRIX version (at least
> 6.5.10 it seems) to make these `.got' statements work with gcc
> compilation.
> 
> I also found that cc compilation seems to works in any case (21.1 and
> 21.2, contrary to the comments in 21.2 unexelf.c that require the
> `.got' sections).

I was also under an impression that unexelf.c from Emacs 21.2 with the 
special .got sections treatment removed made `print' work, is that true?