From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 22 12:28:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4692D37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h132-197-179-27.gte.com (h132-197-179-27.gte.com [132.197.179.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97CA43E3B for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ak03@gte.com) Received: from kanpc.gte.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by h132-197-179-27.gte.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9MJSPkY011860; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:28:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ak03@kanpc.gte.com) Received: (from ak03@localhost) by kanpc.gte.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9MJSPEc011859; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:28:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:28:25 -0400 From: Alexander Kabaev To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs? Message-Id: <20021022152825.686c93ce.ak03@gte.com> In-Reply-To: <3DB5941D.7020507@hotmail.com> References: <3DB5941D.7020507@hotmail.com> Organization: Verizon Data Services X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:08:29 -0700 walt wrote: > I'm confused about the -CURRENT emacs breakage. Is this > an O.S. breakage which will eventually be fixed, or a > permanent change which will require a patch to emacs? > > Thanks. This is a permanent change. The new binutils defaults have changed to generate binaries, which are more convenient for runtime linker to relocate. The code in [x]emacs is not prepared to deal with the change in format and thus will have to be fixed, or the while issue could be worked around by linking [x]emacs binary with -znocombreloc. -- Alexander Kabaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message