Mercurial > emacs
changeset 57229:fb9de0d75bef
* PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
| author | Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> |
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| date | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:39:13 +0000 |
| parents | 445f56b6dc24 |
| children | 4408561037cf |
| files | etc/ChangeLog etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/ChangeLog Sat Sep 25 18:35:53 2004 +0000 +++ b/etc/ChangeLog Sat Sep 25 20:39:13 2004 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2004-09-25 Jan D. <jhd@ostrich.localdomain> + + * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description. + 2004-09-16 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> * e/eterm.ti: Change the strings for smso and rmso.
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Sat Sep 25 18:35:53 2004 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Sat Sep 25 20:39:13 2004 +0000 @@ -2329,28 +2329,34 @@ *** Linux: Segfault during `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel. With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core -1), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which +1 and 2), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper. +Configure can overcome the problem of exec-shield if the architecture is +x86 and the program setarch is present. On other architectures no +workaround is known. + You can check the Exec-shield state like this: cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield -It returns 1 or 2 when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please +It returns non-zero when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and -associated commands. +associated commands. Exec-shield can be turned off with this command: + + echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the execution of this command: -temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] + ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable -Exec-shield while building Emacs, using the `setarch' command like -this: - - setarch i386 ./configure <configure parameters> - setarch i386 make <make parameters> +Exec-shield while building Emacs, or, on x86, by using the `setarch' +command when running temacs like this: + + setarch i386 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] + *** Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump.