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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Thomas Cort <linuxgeek@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help fixing executable stack
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:31:01
Message-Id: 200601061827.16988.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Need help fixing executable stack by Thomas Cort
1 On Friday 06 January 2006 12:30, Thomas Cort wrote:
2 > When emerging wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 on alpha I get a QA message about
3 > executable stacks ( http://bugs.gentoo.org/113119#c10 ). I read the
4 > GNU Stack Quickstart (
5 > http://gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml ).
6
7 well you didnt read far enough down :)
8 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml#doc_chap7
9
10 we are not able to qa check all arches at the moment for executable stacks due
11 to toolchain limitations, alpha included ... that means dont waste your time
12 trying to fix it
13
14 i've already updated portage to only warn about exec stacks on "fully
15 supported" architectures, that version just has yet to be released
16 -mike
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