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Robert Moss posted <419D1B17.7060202@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:58:47 +0000: |
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> Well you definitely shouldn't have it in there if you're not using |
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> hardened. If you are using hardened I'm not sure... |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:34:22 +0000 Robert Moss <robmoss@g.o> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> | Also, perhaps highlight -fPIC in those cases where it shouldn't be |
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>> | used? Is that possible? Ehm. I don't mean that. Is that feasible? :-P |
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>> What're the cases where it shouldn't be used? |
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In reply to Robert (because it's not obvious as it should be due to the |
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upside down quoting... grr!). |
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No, not all archs follow x86 (or whatever arch rules you are assuming) |
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rules. On some archs (amd64 comes to mind as that's what I use), -fPIC is |
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required. Gentoo amd64 officially discourages it in make.conf, so as to |
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hilite ebuilds which do NOT set it so they can be patched to do so, but |
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it's required on the arch, regardless, whether it's configured in the |
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source, in the ebuild, or in make.conf, so on some archs anyway, it's NOT |
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wrong to have it in make.conf, hardened or not. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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