bug#19111: 25.0.50; 32 bits temacs.exe is linked with wrong image-base when built on 64 bit Windows host

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: ofv@wanadoo.es (Óscar Fuentes)
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:27:50 +0100
> 
> The offending argument is "-Wl,-image-base,0x400000000", which sets
> the executable to instruct Windows loader to load the executable at
> the 16 GiB mark or higher in virtual memory, which is ridiculous for a
> 32-bit program. So although the error message is not very clear, it's
> justified, this binary can't be loaded.
> 
> I found the declaration in configure.ac in a case starting at line
> 4911. The linker argument is added there when building on 64-bit
> mingw, probably in an attempt to improve performance and/or
> compatibility.

No, the goal is to find bugs with bad pointers faster: higher
addresses are more likely to segfault when they are bogus.

> The problem is that even on i686, the $canonical triplet is
> "x86_64-pc-mingw32". I have not tried to find out why the triplet is
> wrong.

I'm guessing this is a MSYS2 problem, since uname is an MSYS2 program,
and it doesn't know you are going to build a 32-bit build.  Can you
try with an explicit --host or --build argument?

> The PKGBUILD doesn't have this problem because it always passes
> correct "--build=${MINGW_CHOST}" to configure.

Not sure what PKGBUILD is and what is MINGW_CHOST it uses, or why.