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Re: emacs21 and -z nocombreloc
- To: Jack Howarth <howarth at nitro dot med dot uc dot edu>
- Subject: Re: emacs21 and -z nocombreloc
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Date: 05 Nov 2001 11:41:05 +0100
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200110291447.JAA05488@nitro.msbb.uc.edu>
Jack Howarth <howarth@nitro.msbb.uc.edu> writes:
|> Hello,
|> On Debian sid we just recently enabled -z combreloc on supported
|> arches for our binutils. It has been found that emacs21 fails to
|> build now because gcc doesn't parse -z nocombreloc.
This has already been fixed in CVS for the next release (you tried it on
PPC, didn't you?).
|> I eliminate the -z nocombreloc
Don't. The unexec function cannot cope with the format generated by
combreloc, and making it work requires much work including architecture
dependent changes, not worth trying, IMHO.
Andreas.
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