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PURPOSE of /tools/binutils/Regression/rebuild-emacs
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Description: rebuild-emacs
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Author: Martin Cermak <mcermak@redhat.com>
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From: Jeff Law
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emacs is highly sensitive to the order and structure of executables
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produced by the linker. This is an artifact of its undumping mechanism
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(essentially starts emacs, loads a bunch of stuff, core dumps, then
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turns the core dump into a new executable).
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We've seen a lot of pain around this for ppc64le as well as after the
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RELRO improvements we made to binutils/ld over the last 6 months.
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ISTM that the testing plans for RHEL going forward ought to include a
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test build of emacs with the new binutils installed. No further tests
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are necessary since the build process for emacs exercises the
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problematic bits.
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