Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 10/27/2009 6:50 PM, Pavel Labushev wrote:
>> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>
>>> using hardened for a desktop machine. A few packages, e.g.
>>
>>> *  Mplayer
>>> *  OpenOffice
>>
>> There wasn't a /single/ failure on x86 with these two for me, despite I
>> compiled it with 3.4.6/4.1.2/4.3.3 - all are hardened and allways with
>> SSP flags enabled in specs. So at least it worth a try before switching
>> to vanilla compilers.
> 
> Both of these fail for me on hardened amd64, though my admittedly 
> sketchy memory tells me both built fine when I was running hardened x86 
> on the same hardware a few months back.
> 
> The mplayer failure is the same one that's always caused problems for 
> SSP -- running out of registers in parts of the assembly code.  The OOo 
> build fails on three separate steps for three seemingly unrelated 
> reasons, none of which I have had time to chase down.

OpenOffice fails about an hour into compilation for me, so screw that. 
All of my desktop machines are amd64 -- x86 users might have better 
luck, especially now that 4.x is stable.

If you have any trouble during the 'emerge -ve world', please unleash a 
fury upon bugzilla.