Re: How I build emacs-cvs on OpenBSD

[Jason Rumney]

Han Boetes <address@hidden> writes:

> # A not so nice comment from one of the developers in the ports-cvs-tree
> #
> # Work around the fact that emacs undump knows too much about the layout
> # of elf files (or thinks it does). These assumptions were just broken
> # by binutils/ld changes to put GOT and PLT into their own PT_LOAD
> # sections. Thus BSS is no longer part of the DATA PT_LOAD section. This
> # is a workaround using the '-Z' compatibility flag which disables the
> # GOT/PLT padding.
> 
> export LDFLAGS="-Z -L${LOCALBASE}/lib"

Could this be the cause of the bug-reports of late saying that Emacs
crashes during bootstrapping when compiled with recent versions of
gcc on various platforms?  (I presume people might update binutils at
the same time as they update compiler).