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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] gcc-4.3.4 stabilized for a hardened profile?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:33:40
Message-Id: 4AE7C9A1.4060200@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] gcc-4.3.4 stabilized for a hardened profile? by Mike Edenfield
1 Mike Edenfield wrote:
2 > On 10/27/2009 6:50 PM, Pavel Labushev wrote:
3 >> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> using hardened for a desktop machine. A few packages, e.g.
6 >>
7 >>> * Mplayer
8 >>> * OpenOffice
9 >>
10 >> There wasn't a /single/ failure on x86 with these two for me, despite I
11 >> compiled it with 3.4.6/4.1.2/4.3.3 - all are hardened and allways with
12 >> SSP flags enabled in specs. So at least it worth a try before switching
13 >> to vanilla compilers.
14 >
15 > Both of these fail for me on hardened amd64, though my admittedly
16 > sketchy memory tells me both built fine when I was running hardened x86
17 > on the same hardware a few months back.
18 >
19 > The mplayer failure is the same one that's always caused problems for
20 > SSP -- running out of registers in parts of the assembly code. The OOo
21 > build fails on three separate steps for three seemingly unrelated
22 > reasons, none of which I have had time to chase down.
23
24 OpenOffice fails about an hour into compilation for me, so screw that.
25 All of my desktop machines are amd64 -- x86 users might have better
26 luck, especially now that 4.x is stable.
27
28 If you have any trouble during the 'emerge -ve world', please unleash a
29 fury upon bugzilla.

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