summary: rebuild-emacs
description: |
    From: Jeff Law

    ... stuff deleted ...

    emacs is highly sensitive to the order and structure of executables
    produced by the linker.  This is an artifact of its undumping mechanism
    (essentially starts emacs, loads a bunch of stuff, core dumps, then
    turns the core dump into a new executable).

    We've seen a lot of pain around this for ppc64le as well as after the
    RELRO improvements we made to binutils/ld over the last 6 months.

    ISTM that the testing plans for RHEL going forward ought to include a
    test build of emacs with the new binutils installed.  No further tests
    are necessary since the build process for emacs exercises the
    problematic bits.
contact: Martin Cermak <mcermak@redhat.com>
component:
- binutils
test: ./runtest.sh
framework: beakerlib
recommend:
- alsa-lib-devel
- atk-devel
- binutils
- cairo-devel
- dbus-devel
- emacs
- fontconfig-devel
- freetype-devel
- GConf2-devel
- giflib-devel
- gnutls-devel
- gpm-devel
- gtk3-devel
- ImageMagick-devel
- libjpeg-devel
- liblockfile-devel
- libotf-devel
- libpng-devel
- librsvg2-devel
- libselinux-devel
- libtiff-devel
- libX11-devel
- libXau-devel
- libXdmcp-devel
- libXpm-devel
- libXrender-devel
- libXt-devel
- m17n-lib-devel
- ncurses-devel
- python2-devel
- texinfo
- xorg-x11-proto-devel
- pango
- pango-devel
- yum-utils
- koji
- rpm-build
duration: 24h
extra-summary: /tools/binutils/Regression/rebuild-emacs
extra-task: /tools/binutils/Regression/rebuild-emacs