Re: PaX mprotect now on for amd64

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20160522151112.DB22F17FDAB%rebar.astron.com@localhost>,
Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
>On May 22,  4:49pm, tk%giga.or.at@localhost (Thomas Klausner) wrote:
>-- Subject: Re: PaX mprotect now on for amd64
>
>| On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 01:09:53PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>| > This breaks programs that need to map segments both writable and executable,
>| > for example java. To fix them you can:
>| > 
>| > paxctl +m /path/to/bin/java
>| 
>| libreoffice is not building on -current for me.
>| 
>| The first error is that java is detected as 32-bit version instead of
>| 64-bit. That's a bogus result, and the paxctl above fixes it.
>| 
>| However, next libreoffice wants to use ant, and that doesn't start either:
>| 
>| # ant
>| Error occurred during initialization of VM
>| Could not reserve enough space for code cache
>| 
>| What's the fix for that?
>|  Thomas
>
>Turn off ASLR for it?

It == java? Try that.

christos