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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:39:14
Message-Id: 20120814133725.500f3584@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423) by Samuli Suominen
1 On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:03:50 +0300
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 13.08.2012 19:55, Samuli Suominen wrote:
5 > [ ... ]
6 >
7 > I should mention that we have discussed this already,
8 >
9 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364375
10 >
11 > Which was a result of long gentoo-dev ML thread, unfortunately my
12 > search foo failed and I couldn't find straight link to it
13 >
14 > Why should we threat /usr than / any different in this regard, there
15 > was large consensus /lib/udev should be used instead of /lib64/udev
16 > and udev.pc's udevdir= is the path for "udev helpers", ELFs(!), and
17 > rules among other things
18 >
19 > It's completely fair to say that multilib-strict feature has been
20 > broken ever since, years.
21
22 well, i dont agree its fair :P
23 it breaks on _pie_ executables, which are not that common if you dont
24 run hardened.
25
26 what is broken, and has been broken since years is multilib-strict +
27 pie toolchain; a flaw in the multilib-strict detection system that gets
28 confused by 'file' output on pie executables :)
29
30 A.

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