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Hi, |
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On 21:19 Tue 09 Nov , François Bissey wrote: |
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> > my next migration victim will be mpir, the friendly clone of gmp. The |
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> > current ebuild is the same in sage-on-gentoo and science. It has this |
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> > assembler stuff in it that I don't understand. Who did this? What is |
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> > the latest here, can we remove the fat TODO-banner (or DO it?). |
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> > Any other hints/objections? (Yes, I know that there is a bump |
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> > waiting...) |
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> Hi Thomas, |
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> Christopher did it. mpir like gmp suffer from executable stacks. |
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> There are talk on sage-devel which is very close to mpir upstream |
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> to take a different approach: using an m4 macro and a linker flag |
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> to remove them -Wl,-z,noexecstack. |
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> The motivation to fix this is fedora 14 which doesn't allow executable stacks |
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> by default. |
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The changelog of mpir-2.2 shows: |
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-) Enable noexecstack for x86/x86_64 with GCC |
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So what should be done to use this in our ebuild. I tried to simply |
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append -Wl,-z,noexecstack to ldflags, but this did nothing. |
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Cheers, |
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Thomas |
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Thomas Kahle |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ |
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