Re: `exec shield' test in configure too strict?

[Jan D.]

> > I have checked in a test that runs a program and sees if the heap 
> > start
> > address is random.
>
> Doesn't this harm cross-building Emacs?  I always thought that running
> a test program at configure time should be avoided, and that tests
> that only compile or link programs should be peferred.

When cross compiling the test obviously can not be run, so configure 
assumes
that the heap start address is not random.  Come to think of it, the old
test (checking /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield) was worse, as it did not 
handle
cross compiling.

        Jan D.