On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 07:36 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 00:13 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Sun 20 Jan 2013 18:18:16 +0100, a écrit :
> > > A recent problem popping up is that executables using the -pie flag when
> > > linking segfaults when starting up. Examples are mktable in w3m
> >
> > It doesn't seem so simple. I've tried building a small program with
> > -pie, and it does work. I've tried to use w3m, it does work. elinks does
> > indeed crash.
No problems with mktable in w3m?
> I know in which module elinks crashes. Disabling it makes things work
> again. Can this be of interest?
The problems with elinks is when initializing the perl_scripting_module
in src/scripting/scripting.c defined in src/scripting/perl/perl.c
$ cat hurd-pie.patch
--- elinks-0.12pre5/src/scripting/scripting.c 2009-07-07
14:23:17.000000000 +0200
+++ elinks-0.12~pre5/src/scripting/scripting.c 2013-01-18
16:52:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -75,9 +75,11 @@ static struct module *scripting_modules[
#ifdef CONFIG_SCRIPTING_GUILE
&guile_scripting_module,
#endif
+ /*
#ifdef CONFIG_SCRIPTING_PERL
&perl_scripting_module,
#endif
+ */
#ifdef CONFIG_SCRIPTING_PYTHON
&python_scripting_module,
#endif
$ cat src/scripting/perl/perl.c
/* Perl module */
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif
#include "elinks.h"
#include "intl/gettext/libintl.h"
#include "main/module.h"
#include "scripting/perl/core.h"
#include "scripting/perl/hooks.h"
struct module perl_scripting_module = struct_module(
/* name: */ N_("Perl"),
/* options: */ NULL,
/* hooks: */ perl_scripting_hooks,
/* submodules: */ NULL,
/* data: */ NULL,
/* init: */ init_perl,
/* done: */ cleanup_perl
);
