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Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: |
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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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Oh, OK, let's argue semantics. It's suggested by a hardened user on a |
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bug the hardened team is CC'd on, but the team didn't say anything was |
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wrong with the change. |
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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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Now I'm confused. Do you want this filter instead of the current |
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situation, in addition to, or what? This is exactly why I asked for a patch. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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