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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] static compilation and executable stacks
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:48:03
Message-Id: 200602151544.49020.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] static compilation and executable stacks by Tristan Hill
1 On Tuesday 14 February 2006 23:02, Tristan Hill wrote:
2 > I'm updating the rpm ebuild[1]. Without any modifications the
3 > executables are statically compiled and I get the QA message about
4 > executable stacks. However, removal of "-static" from the compilation
5 > flags in ./configure also stops generation of an executable stack. The
6 > information about executable stacks, e.g. [2] and [3] dont indicate
7 > anything special about static compilation. Wondered if anyone has any
8 > suggestions on this behaviour.
9
10 Static compilation and executable stacks should be unrelated. Perhaps our
11 rpm does not need to be compiled statically (it's not needed for
12 emergencies anyway, we have portage). That's a different matter though.
13
14 Paul
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17 Paul de Vrieze
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