Hi,

On 21:19 Tue 09 Nov     , François Bissey wrote:
> > my next migration victim will be mpir, the friendly clone of gmp.  The
> > current ebuild is the same in sage-on-gentoo and science.  It has this
> > assembler stuff in it that I don't understand.  Who did this? What is
> > the latest here, can we remove the fat TODO-banner (or DO it?).
> > 
> > Any other hints/objections?  (Yes, I know that there is a bump
> > waiting...)
> > 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Christopher did it. mpir like gmp suffer from executable stacks.
> There are talk on sage-devel which is very close to mpir upstream
> to take a different approach: using an m4 macro and a linker flag
> to remove them -Wl,-z,noexecstack. 
> The motivation to fix this is fedora 14 which doesn't allow executable stacks 
> by default.

The changelog of mpir-2.2 shows:

-) Enable noexecstack for x86/x86_64 with GCC

So what should be done to use this in our ebuild.  I tried to simply
append -Wl,-z,noexecstack to ldflags, but this did nothing.

Cheers,
Thomas



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