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On 23/09/14 11:54, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:16:42AM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote |
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>> Looks like support for '-fstack-protector-strong' was implemented in |
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>> more recent versions of gcc. The the URL below for details: |
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>> https://securityblog.redhat.com/tag/stack-protector/ |
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> Thanks for the explanation. The blog says... |
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>> GCC 4.8.1 and the GCC version in Fedora 19 added another mode, |
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>> -fstack-protector-strong, bringing the number of stack protector |
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>> modes up to three. |
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> Gentoo stable appears to be gcc-4.7.3-r1. ebuilds up to gcc-4.9.1 are |
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> present in the tree. Upgrading gcc is painful, so I appreciate the |
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> maintainers not forcing a rebuild with every version bump. |
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You don't need to upgrade. You can just install it in parallel with your |
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current GCC, and use the newer one just to build the kernel. |
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