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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:37:45
Message-Id: 20040923023702.1ca5d9b2@andy.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons by Mike Frysinger
1 On 09/22/04 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2
3 > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 07:17 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
4 > > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:49, Ned Ludd wrote:
5 > > > As far as a disable feature how about FEATURES="noautossp" ?
6 > >
7 > > Getting a little picky, but ...
8 > >
9 > > no* FEATURES are awkward, just like no* USE flags. Just have
10 > > FEATURES="autossp" by default, same as ccache is. They can change to
11 > > "-autossp" to disable.
12 >
13 > not picky, there are plans to fix all the 'no*' FEATURES and if we get
14 > the IUSE default stuff ( http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61732
15 > ) going, we can get rid of all the 'no*' USE flags too
16 >
17 > that said, what needs to be done here in order to get the ball rolling
18 > ? can we simply put together a function in flag-o-matic which will
19 > check FEATURES and ARCH and gcc, and then just `append-flags
20 > -fstack-protector` ? then in our system packages, just call this
21 > function ...-mike
22
23 What exactly would that FEATURE do ? If it really only affects CFLAGS I
24 don't see the need for another FEATURE flag at all. We already have ~30
25 different flags, please lets try to avoid another USE desaster by not
26 adding new flags for trivial stuff.
27
28 Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons John Richard Moser <nigelenki@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>