[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/PROBLEMS

[Eli Zaretskii]

Index: emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
diff -c emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.159 emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.160
*** emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.159    Fri Oct 24 05:27:50 2003
--- emacs/etc/PROBLEMS  Mon Nov  3 01:21:45 2003
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  This file describes various problems that have been encountered
  in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs.
  
+ * Segfault on GNU/Linux using certain recent versions of the Linux kernel.
+ 
+ With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core
+ 1), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which
+ creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper.
+ 
+ You can check the Exec-shield state like this:
+ 
+     cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
+ 
+ It returns 1 or 2 when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise.  Please
+ read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and
+ associated commands.
+ 
+ When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the
+ execution of this command:
+ 
+ temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap]
+ 
+ To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable
+ Exec-shield while building Emacs, using the `setarch' command like
+ this:
+ 
+     setarch i386 ./configure <configure parameters>
+     setarch i386 make <make parameters>
+ 
  * Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X.
  
  This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used.