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On Sat, 13 May 2006 13:10:22 -0700 |
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Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > This was handled in the 6.8.x series and got dropped for unknown |
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> > reasons when the modular X porting started happening. |
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> > Unless your dead set on modular X I'd stick with the 6.8.x series. |
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> We are using the solution that was suggested to us by members of the |
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> hardened team. |
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The current solution (bail if -z,now is set in the compiler specs) is |
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not one suggested by the hardened team, just need to make that clear, |
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and it's not something we would encourage elsewhere. However until we |
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can provide a solution for such a high-profile package we are not going |
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to make a fuss. |
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Our suggestion was to 'append-flags -nonow' on the server and video |
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driver builds, but when a helpful user tried it, it wasn't enough - |
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we simply haven't had the resource to work it out properly yet. |
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> If you have a different solution, please do submit a |
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> patch for it. |
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With regards to Duncan's (non-hardened) problem, adding: |
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filter-ldflags -Wl,-z,now |
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to x-modular.eclass as he suggests should be fine; his issue is |
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different to that with the hardened compiler in as much as he has added |
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the '-Wl,-z,now' to LDFLAGS as advised by the QA message and the above |
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filter will just remove it again; whereas to deal with the hardened |
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compiler we need to reliably add a flag to all the relevant link |
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commands (the bit that takes the effort is working out which are |
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relevant). |
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Duncan - perhaps it would be useful if you could raise a separate bug |
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about the QA message and Xorg, and attach the diff you apply to |
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x-modular.eclass. |
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Kevin F. Quinn |
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