Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Let's continue this discussion on the packaging mailing list.

Heiko Helmle <heiko.helmle@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger schrieb:
>
>> * Enable -fstack-protector for the new distros for every package
>>   by default
>>
>
> Gentoo is supporting -fstack-protector for quite some time now and you
> might want to have a look at their ebuild database for some packages
> that have little propblems with that compiler flag.

Fedora should have patches as well.  If people using the buildservice
like to test this, it would be fine.

>
> If you're interested, i'll aggregate some bugzilla entries from
> bugs.g.o for this...
>
> A quick grep over portage brought these packages all have some special
> handling for -fstack-protector (or simply disable it):
>
> mozilla-firefox
> mozilla-thunderbird
> wesnoth
> xterm
> tetex
> texlive
> iptables
> sane-backends (seems only amd64)
> hesiod
> amule
> lsof
> lm_sensors
> memtest86
> grub (seems to be build issue)
> syslinux
> qemu
> xen-tools
> opal
> openh323
> xulrunner
> hylafax
> lyx
> openoffice
> windowmaker
> perl
> ocaml
> erlang
> dietlibc
> pwlib
> libffi
> monotone
> valgrind
> emacs (ICE)
> fcpci
> wireshark

Thanks for that list, let's see what we figure out in our build,

Andreas
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