Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Here're the proposed agenda items for this weeks dist meeting.

* Use fast linking style:

  The linker & glibc in 10.2 support the --hash-style=both (or just
  gnu) flag, which halves linking time [ still a major cost on all
  startup]. Unfortunately - it seems we only re-compiled glibc with
  this flag, and not all the other applications in the system :-) Risk
  wise this is a no-brainer, RedHat are already shipping with
  --hash-style=gnu [ this is unfortunate since the binaries are then
  not back-compatible ]. We should most likely use --hash-style=both
  (at some small size penalty) - but after some time switch over to
  --hash-style=gnu to save size.

* libata per default (see minutes from last time - the partitioning
  question is still open)

* Enable -fstack-protector for the new distros for every package
  by default

  Red Hat according to their press statements builds all of their
  distribution using -fstack-protector, the heuristic stack overflow
  detection. While we use -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, this one only covers
  known arrays. I think we should also enable -fstack-protector for
  all packages. If we enable it by default in the compiler, all
  software will automatically get the benefit too.


Please send me your comments and additions,
 
Andreas
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