Re: [gentoo-hardened] Converting new install to hardened (glibc problem)?

[John Schember]

Hardened requires glibc-2.3. Some features (SSP) are not available in
newer versions yet. If you want to use hardened with the hardened tool
chain you have to downgrade glibc to 2.3 and gcc to 3.4. There is no way
to get around this, it is required.

John Schember


On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 16:43 -0500, Nedim Cholich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first email to the list and my first attempt at installing
> hardened Gentoo (I've been using Gentoo for 4 years now). I apologize
> if I'm asking an obvious question. I have been searching for couple of
> days for an answer but couldn't find one.
>
> I have a fresh install of Gentoo 2006.1 and I'm trying to convert it
> to hardened. I have followed instructions and changed the profile,
> added USE flags and when I try to recompile the toolchain it wants to
> downgrade the glibc, which is, of course, not allowed.
>
> I've seen various posts on forms and lists but they all start with
> older glibc. Also this post
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-hardened@l.g.o/msg00845.html
> doesn't even mention glibc, but the fact still remains that glibc will
> not be emergable and the toolchain will be inconsistent.
>
> So the question is how to get around the obvious discrepancy between
> glibc version 2.4-r3 that comes with standard Gentoo and version
> 2.3.6-r5 that hardened profile wants to emerge?
>
> Thanks.

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