GNU bug report logs - #23529
Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 12:20:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed

Merged with 13964

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #170 received at 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23529: Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:32:51 +0200

>>     What about disabling randomization for the temacs run?
>>
>> That is yet another low-level thing to configure, and to get right in new ports.
>
> We already have that in Emacs, don't we?

That is exactly why I made the bug report 23529!

Because Emacs does stuffs at build time that requires "high"
privileges (like the personality() syscall), one cannot build Emacs in
various restricted environments.

Disabling randomization is exactly what we should get rid of, at least
at build time. Having some part of emacs that requires somewhat high
privileges when it runs is ok, but that should *not* be part of the
standard build procedure... Being able to build GCC inside a container
but not Emacs is just "wrong" IMHO.

Philippe
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