Re: configure should avoid exec-shield breakage

[Dave Love]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> One idea would be to build Emacs normally with exec-shield off and then
> turn it on to get exec-shield protection on the resulting Emacs binary.
> Then your patch would make sense.  But it does not seem to work that way
> as far as I can tell.

I thought the dumped Emacs would get the default treatment for
executables because the relevant ELF section would just be copied --
not that it's likely to be important.  drepper's paper had a recipe
for checking with `readelf' (?).