Re: 20170501

Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.axiom.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Tim!  I think your socket bind code needs modifying along these lines
(apply these sequentially, see also man 7 unix).  The
server[1].addr.u_addr.sa_data array is 14 bytes long and the strcpy can
(and does) overflow, triggering a failure when built with stack
checking.

Take care,

--- axiom-20170501.orig/books/bookvol8.pamphlet
+++ axiom-20170501/books/bookvol8.pamphlet
@@ -27066,12 +27066,11 @@ open_server(char *server_name)
     server[1].socket = 0;
     return -2;
   } else {
-    server[1].addr.u_addr.sa_family = AF_UNIX;
-    memset(server[1].addr.u_addr.sa_data, 0,
-           sizeof(server[1].addr.u_addr.sa_data));
-    strcpy(server[1].addr.u_addr.sa_data, name);
-    if (bind(server[1].socket, &server[1].addr.u_addr,
-             sizeof(server[1].addr.u_addr))) {
+    struct sockaddr_un nn;
+    memset(&nn, 0, sizeof(nn));
+    nn.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
+    strncpy(name.sun_path, name, sizeof(name.sun_path) - 1);
+    if (bind(server[1].socket,(const struct sockaddr *) &nn,sizeof(nn))) {
       perror("binding UNIX server socket");
       server[1].socket = 0;
       return -2;


--- axiom-20170501.orig/books/bookvol8.pamphlet
+++ axiom-20170501/books/bookvol8.pamphlet
@@ -27024,6 +27024,8 @@ make_server_name(char *name,char * base)
 
 /* client Spad server sockets.  Two sockets are created: server[0]
    is the internet server socket, and server[1] is a UNIX domain socket. */
+#include <sys/un.h>
+
 int 
 open_server(char *server_name)
 {
@@ -27069,7 +27071,7 @@ open_server(char *server_name)
     struct sockaddr_un nn;
     memset(&nn, 0, sizeof(nn));
     nn.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
-    strncpy(name.sun_path, name, sizeof(name.sun_path) - 1);
+    strncpy(nn.sun_path, name, sizeof(nn.sun_path) - 1);
     if (bind(server[1].socket,(const struct sockaddr *) &nn,sizeof(nn))) {
       perror("binding UNIX server socket");
       server[1].socket = 0;



Tim Daly <[email protected]> writes:

> re: cleanups.
>
> I will look into the library links. Odds are good I'm just using a generic list
> of X11 libraries for every link command.
>
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Greetings!  Just FYI for possible cleanups at some point:
>    
>     dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/axiom-hypertex/usr/lib/axiom-20170501/bin/hypertex was not linked
>     against libm.so.6 (it uses none of the library's symbols)
>     dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/axiom/usr/lib/axiom-20170501/lib/spadbuf debian/axiom/usr/lib/
>     axiom-20170501/lib/ex2ht were not linked against libXpm.so.4 (they use none of the library's symbols)
>    
>     Take care,
>    
>     Tim Daly <[email protected]> writes:
>    
>     > Camm,
>     >
>     > I applied your changes, tested it, and pushed it.
>     >
>     > Tim
>     >
>     > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Tim Daly <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Camm,
>     >
>     >     I've applied all of the above patches and am rebuilding now.
>     >     I'll let you know if anything fails. Thanks for the patches.
>     >
>     >     re: list_order, etc...
>     >     I have a meeting at CMU on friday with some profs to talk about the
>     >     state of my research on proving Axiom correct so I'm going to be
>     >     busy prepping for that.
>     >
>     >     Tim
>     >
>     >     On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >
>     >         Greetings!
>     >
>     >         Tim Daly <[email protected]> writes:
>     >
>     >         > Camm,
>     >         >
>     >         > So far I've discoverd that chdir is no longer exported from system and
>     >         > that pathname-* no longer accepts a symbol.
>     >         >
>     >
>     >         Correct.
>     >
>     >         > These changes are painful to find. You are clearly on the path to making
>     >         > GCL into CLTL2. Do you have a list of these semantic changes somewhere?
>     >         >
>     >
>     >         Actually I do not think this was even valid ClTL1.  GCL does intend to
>     >         support both dialects.  But with the next release the default will be
>     >         ansi.  One can get CLTL1 with --disable-ansi passed to configure.
>     >
>     >         Here are my patches addressing these issues. Pretty small issue:
>     >
>     >         #############################################################################
>     >         Description: <short summary of the patch>
>     >          TODO: Put a short summary on the line above and replace this paragraph
>     >          with a longer explanation of this change. Complete the meta-information
>     >          with other relevant fields (see below for details). To make it easier, the
>     >          information below has been extracted from the changelog. Adjust it or drop
>     >          it.
>     >          .
>     >          axiom (20140801-12) unstable; urgency=medium
>     >          .
>     >            * build dep against latest gcl
>     >            * Bug fix: "FTBFS on arm64, mips64el and mipsel", thanks to Emilio
>     >              Pozuelo Monfort (Closes: #840639).
>     >         Author: Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
>     >         Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/840639
>     >
>     >         ---
>     >         The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guidelines, please
>     >         checkout http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ to learn about the format. Here
>     >         are templates for supplementary fields that you might want to add:
>     >
>     >         Origin: <vendor|upstream|other>, <url of original patch>
>     >         Bug: <url in upstream bugtracker>
>     >         Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/<bugnumber>
>     >         Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/<bugnumber>
>     >         Forwarded: <no|not-needed|url proving that it has been forwarded>
>     >         Reviewed-By: <name and email of someone who approved the patch>
>     >         Last-Update: 2016-10-13
>     >
>     >         Index: axiom-20170401/books/bookvol5.pamphlet
>     >         ===================================================================
>     >         --- axiom-20170401.orig/books/bookvol5.pamphlet
>     >         +++ axiom-20170401/books/bookvol5.pamphlet
>     >         @@ -47588,9 +47588,9 @@ nrlib/index.kaf
>     >            (processDir (dirarg thisdir)
>     >             (let (allfiles)
>     >              (declare (special vmlisp::*index-filename*))
>     >         -    (system:chdir (string dirarg))
>     >         +    (system::chdir (string dirarg))
>     >              (setq allfiles (directory "*"))
>     >         -    (system:chdir thisdir)
>     >         +    (system::chdir thisdir)
>     >               (mapcan #'(lambda (f)
>     >                (when (string-equal (pathname-type f) "nrlib")
>     >                 (list (concatenate 'string (namestring f) "/"
>     >         Index: axiom-20170401/src/interp/patches.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         ===================================================================
>     >         --- axiom-20170401.orig/src/interp/patches.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         +++ axiom-20170401/src/interp/patches.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ It used to read:
>     >                  ((eql (|directoryp| (interp-make-directory (car args))) 1)
>     >                   (setq $current-directory
>     >                     (namestring (truename (interp-make-directory (car args)))))))
>     >         -#+(or :kcl :ibcl :CCL) (system:CHDIR $current-directory)
>     >         +#+(or :kcl :ibcl :CCL) (system::CHDIR $current-directory)
>     >          #+(and :lucid :ibm/370)
>     >            (setq *default-pathname-defaults* "")
>     >          #-(and :lucid :ibm/370)
>     >         @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ It used to read:
>     >              ((eql (|directoryp| (interp-make-directory (car args))) 1)
>     >               (setq $current-directory
>     >                 (namestring (truename (interp-make-directory (car args)))))))
>     >         -#+(or :kcl :ibcl :CCL) (system:CHDIR $current-directory)
>     >         +#+(or :kcl :ibcl :CCL) (system::CHDIR $current-directory)
>     >          #+(and :lucid :ibm/370)
>     >            (setq *default-pathname-defaults* "")
>     >          #-(and :lucid :ibm/370)
>     >         =============================================================================
>     >         Description: <short summary of the patch>
>     >          TODO: Put a short summary on the line above and replace this paragraph
>     >          with a longer explanation of this change. Complete the meta-information
>     >          with other relevant fields (see below for details). To make it easier, the
>     >          information below has been extracted from the changelog. Adjust it or drop
>     >          it.
>     >          .
>     >          axiom (20140801-11) unstable; urgency=medium
>     >          .
>     >            * fix FTBFS ppc64, patch to avoid overflow of BSD sockaddr sa_data in
>     >              make_server_name
>     >            * build-dep latest gcl
>     >            * Bug fix: "FTBFS on mips", thanks to Sebastian Ramacher (Closes:
>     >              #756793).  autobuild with latest tools on mips works.
>     >            * Bug fix: "naive methods of exiting axiom can blow up
>     >              catastrophically", thanks to Tom Hargreaves (Closes: #346552).
>     >            * Bug fix: "&quot;backspace&quot; key doesn&#39;t work as expected",
>     >              thanks to Edi Meier (Closes: #708733). Command line editing in
>     >              terminal now has a conventionally functioning Backspace
>     >         Author: Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
>     >         Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/346552
>     >         Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/708733
>     >         Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/756793
>     >
>     >         ---
>     >         The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guidelines, please
>     >         checkout http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ to learn about the format. Here
>     >         are templates for supplementary fields that you might want to add:
>     >
>     >         Origin: <vendor|upstream|other>, <url of original patch>
>     >         Bug: <url in upstream bugtracker>
>     >         Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/<bugnumber>
>     >         Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/<bugnumber>
>     >         Forwarded: <no|not-needed|url proving that it has been forwarded>
>     >         Reviewed-By: <name and email of someone who approved the patch>
>     >         Last-Update: 2016-10-13
>     >
>     >         Index: axiom-20170401/books/bookvol5.pamphlet
>     >         ===================================================================
>     >         --- axiom-20170401.orig/books/bookvol5.pamphlet
>     >         +++ axiom-20170401/books/bookvol5.pamphlet
>     >         @@ -37537,7 +37537,7 @@ o )history
>     >              (cond
>     >               ((eq fullopt '|ifthere|) (setq ifthere t))
>     >               ((eq fullopt '|quiet|)   (setq quiet t))))
>     >         -  (setq ef (|pathname| /editfile))
>     >         +  (setq ef (or (|pathname| /editfile) ""))
>     >            (when (eq (|pathnameTypeId| ef) 'spad)
>     >              (setq ef (|makePathname| (|pathnameName| ef) "*" "*")))
>     >            (if arg
>     >         @@ -47605,8 +47605,9 @@ nrlib/index.kaf
>     >            (if make-database? (setq noexpose t))
>     >            (when dir (setq nrlibs (processDir dir thisdir)))
>     >            (dolist (file filelist)
>     >         -   (let ((filename (pathname-name file))
>     >         -         (namedir (directory-namestring file)))
>     >         +   (let* ((file (string file))
>     >         +          (filename (pathname-name file))
>     >         +          (namedir (directory-namestring file)))
>     >              (unless namedir (setq thisdir (concatenate 'string thisdir "/")))
>     >              (cond
>     >               ((setq file (probe-file
>     >         @@ -48838,7 +48839,7 @@ filetype and filemode. We also UPCASE ev
>     >          (defun |pathname| (p)
>     >           (cond
>     >            ((null p) p)
>     >         -  ((pathnamep p) p)
>     >         +  ((pathnamep p) p)((symbolp p) (pathname (string p)))
>     >            ((null (consp p)) (pathname p))
>     >            (t
>     >             (when (> (|#| p) 2) (setq p (cons (elt p 0) (cons (elt p 1) nil))))
>     >         Index: axiom-20170401/src/interp/patches.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         ===================================================================
>     >         --- axiom-20170401.orig/src/interp/patches.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         +++ axiom-20170401/src/interp/patches.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         @@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ previous definition.
>     >            (cond ((null filename)
>     >                   (dribble) (TERPRI)
>     >                   (reset-highlight))
>     >         -        ((probe-file (car filename))
>     >         +        ((probe-file (string (car filename)))
>     >                   (error (format nil "file ~a already exists" (car filename))))
>     >         -        (t (dribble (car filename))
>     >         +        (t (dribble (string (car filename)))
>     >                     (TERPRI)
>     >                     (clear-highlight))
>     >              ))
>     >         Index: axiom-20170401/src/interp/util.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         ===================================================================
>     >         --- axiom-20170401.orig/src/interp/util.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         +++ axiom-20170401/src/interp/util.lisp.pamphlet
>     >         @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ Run the etags command on all of the lisp
>     >          final TAGS file is constructed in the {\bf tmp} directory.
>     >          \begin{chunk}{make-tags-file}
>     >          (defun make-tags-file ()
>     >         -#+:gcl (system:chdir "/tmp")
>     >         +#+:gcl (system::chdir "/tmp")
>     >          #-:gcl (vmlisp::obey (concatenate 'string "cd " "/tmp"))
>     >            (obey (concat "etags " (make-absolute-filename "../../src/interp/*.lisp")))
>     >            (spadtags-from-directory "../../src/interp" "boot")
>     >         #############################################################################
>     >
>     >         Take care,
>     >
>     >         > Tim
>     >         >
>     >         > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Tim Daly <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >         >
>     >         >     Never mind. I might have figured it out. I'll let you know.
>     >         >
>     >         >     On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Tim Daly <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >         >
>     >         >         Camm, Barry,
>     >         >
>     >         >         Yeah, I know. But it wasnt' needed before.
>     >         >         I've fixed that. Now the problem is:
>     >         >
>     >         >         >;; Loading "/home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/interp/makedep.lisp"
>     >         >         ;; Loading "/home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/interp/sys-pkg.lsp"
>     >         >         ;; Finished loading "/home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/interp/sys-pkg.lsp"
>     >         >         ;; Loading "/home/daly/axiom/src/interp/interp-proclaims.lisp"
>     >         >         ;; Finished loading "/home/daly/axiom/src/interp/interp-proclaims.lisp"
>     >         >         ;; Loading "/home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/interp/nocompil"
>     >         >         ;; Finished loading "/home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/interp/nocompil"
>     >         >         ;; Loading "/home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/interp/bookvol5"
>     >         >
>     >         >         Error: ERROR "Cannot find the external symbol CHDIR in #<\"SYSTEM\" package>."
>     >         >         Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
>     >         >         Signalled by LOAD.
>     >         >         ERROR "Cannot find the external symbol CHDIR in #<\"SYSTEM\" package>."
>     >         >
>     >         >         Broken at LOAD.  Type :H for Help.
>     >         >             1  Return to top level.
>     >         >         BOOT>>Makefile:174: recipe for target '/home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/bin/depsys' failed
>     >         >         make[3]: *** [/home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/bin/depsys] Error 255
>     >         >         rm /home/daly/axiom/int/interp/nocompil.lisp /home/daly/axiom/int/interp/sys-pkg.lisp /home/daly/axiom/int/interp/util.lisp
>     /home
>     >         /daly/axiom/int/interp/parsing.lisp
>     >         >         make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/daly/axiom/src/interp'
>     >         >         Makefile:80: recipe for target 'interpdir' failed
>     >         >         make[2]: *** [interpdir] Error 2
>     >         >         make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/daly/axiom/src'
>     >         >         Makefile.ubuntu:164: recipe for target 'srcdir' failed
>     >         >         make[1]: *** [srcdir] Error 2
>     >         >         make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/daly/axiom'
>     >         >         Makefile:140: recipe for target 'all' failed
>     >         >         make: *** [all] Error 2
>     >         >
>     >         >         When I build gcl with Axiom and run bin/gcl
>     >         >
>     >         >         (find-all-symbols 'chdir) ==> (system::chdir chdir)
>     >         >
>     >         >         but when I do the build the above failure occurs. Yet
>     >         >
>     >         >         every call to chdir uses the fully qualified system::chdir
>     >         >
>     >         >         suggestions?
>     >         >
>     >         >         On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Barry M Trager <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >         >
>     >         >             Tim, I think bsdSignal comes from your bsdsignal.c so don't you need to include bcdsignal.o when trying to link in
>     sockio-c.o
>     >         ?
>     >         >
>     >         >             Barry
>     >         >
>     >         >             From:        Tim Daly <[email protected]>
>     >         >             To:        Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
>     >         >             Cc:        Barry M Trager <[email protected]>, Tim Daly <[email protected]>
>     >         >             Date:        07/19/2017 03:09 PM
>     >         >             Subject:        Re: [Axiom] Build failures
>     >         >             -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     >         ----------------
>     >         >
>     >         >             I have integrated the list_order branch into the Axiom build. Without
>     >         >             change, the list_order GCL will build on Ubuntu 16.10
>     >         >
>     >         >             Axiom requires two addtional files, sockio and cfuns to be part of the
>     >         >             lisp image. This step fails, missing bsdSignal:
>     >         >
>     >         >             ar: creating libpre_gcl.a
>     >         >             cp ../o/gcllib.a libgclp.a
>     >         >             ranlib libgclp.a
>     >         >             cat sys_init.lsp.in| sed \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-VERS@#(`cat ../majvers`.`cat ../minvers`) `cat ../release`#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-EXTVERS@#`cat ../minvers | cut -f2 -d.`#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-MINVERS@#`cat ../minvers | cut -f1 -d.`#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-MAJVERS@#`cat ../majvers`#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-RELEASE@#`cat ../release`#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-CC@#\"gcc -c -fsigned-char -pipe -fno-builtin-malloc -fno-builtin-free -fno-PIE -fno-pie
>     -fno-PIC
>     >         -fno-pic
>     >         >             -Wall -Wno-empty-body -Wno-unused-but-set-variable   \"#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-LD@#\"gcc -Wl,-z,lazy -Wl,-T,../unixport/gcl.script -o \"#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-LD-LIBS@#\"  -l -lm  -lc -lgclp\"#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-OPT-THREE@#\"-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer\"#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-OPT-TWO@#\"-O\"#1" \
>     >         >                             -e "s#@LI-INIT-LSP@#\"sys_init.lsp\"#1" >sys_init.lsp
>     >         >             touch raw_pre_gcl_map
>     >         >             gcc -Wl,-z,lazy -Wl,-T,../unixport/gcl.script -o raw_pre_gcl /home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/lib/cfuns-c.o /home/daly/axiom
>     /obj/
>     >         ubuntu/lib/
>     >         >             sockio-c.o -L.  -Wl,-Map raw_pre_gcl_map  -lpre_gcl -lm  -lc -lgclp
>     >         >             /home/daly/axiom/obj/ubuntu/lib/sockio-c.o: In function `open_server':
>     >         >             sockio-c.c:(.text+0x1c73): undefined reference to `bsdSignal'
>     >         >             collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>     >         >             makefile:137: recipe for target 'raw_pre_gcl_map' failed
>     >         >             make[4]: *** [raw_pre_gcl_map] Error 1
>     >         >             make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/daly/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.13pre/unixport'
>     >         >             makefile:74: recipe for target 'unixport/saved_pre_gcl' failed
>     >         >             make[3]: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2
>     >         >             rm h/mcompdefs.h
>     >         >             make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/daly/axiom/lsp/gcl-2.6.13pre'
>     >         >             /bin/sh: 6: unixport/saved_gcl: not found
>     >         >             Makefile:8: recipe for target 'gcldir' failed
>     >         >             make[2]: *** [gcldir] Error 127
>     >         >             make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/daly/axiom/lsp'
>     >         >             Makefile.ubuntu:181: recipe for target 'lspdir' failed
>     >         >             make[1]: *** [lspdir] Error 2
>     >         >             make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/daly/axiom'
>     >         >             Makefile:140: recipe for target 'all' failed
>     >         >             make: *** [all] Error 2
>     >         >
>     >         >             On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Tim Daly <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >         >             Thanks. I'm cloning it now. I'll let you know how it goes.
>     >         >
>     >         >             Axiom would not exist without your help.
>     >         >             I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
>     >         >             Debugging a C compiler problem is painful.
>     >         >
>     >         >             Tim
>     >         >
>     >         >             On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >         >             Hi Tim!  I take it you are using 2.6.13pre?  If so, please advance to
>     >         >             the list_order branch, which I will be pushing to 2.6.13pre soon.  I
>     >         >             have a configure script which tests for and adds -fno_pie as needed.
>     >         >
>     >         >             Take care,
>     >         >
>     >         >             Tim Daly <[email protected]> writes:
>     >         >
>     >         >             > No. I have spent the last two days trying to get that to work.
>     >         >             > Apparently it also affects the shipped libraries so the linker is
>     >         >             > unhappy. I also tried using update-alternatives to install back-level
>     >         >             > gcc versions but they also will not build.
>     >         >             >
>     >         >             > One option is to rebuild the compiler/linker/library chain without PIE
>     >         >             > but then I have a much larger maintenance task.
>     >         >             >
>     >         >             > Unfortunately this is viral. GCC 6.2 will eventually be on all shipped
>     >         >             > systems in the future so Axiom will only be able to be built as long
>     >         >             > as I maintain old build servers. Once my binaries from old build
>     >         >             > servers stop working on new systems the whole project will suffer.
>     >         >             >
>     >         >             > I will try to use clang in the next few days.
>     >         >             >
>     >         >             > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Barry M Trager <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >         >             >
>     >         >             >     Tim, now that you've found the problem, can't you just add the -no-pie compiler flag to fix it?
>     >         >             >     Barry
>     >         >             >      
>     >         >             >      
>     >         >             >
>     >         >             >         ----- Original message -----
>     >         >             >         From: Tim Daly <[email protected]>
>     >         >             >         To: Camm Maguire <[email protected]>, Barry M Trager <[email protected]>, Tim Daly <
>     [email protected]>
>     >         >             >         Cc:
>     >         >             >         Subject: [Axiom] Build failures
>     >         >             >         Date: Mon, Jul 17, 2017 2:21 PM
>     >         >             >          
>     >         >             >         I have been unable to build Axiom on Ubuntu on any system from
>     >         >             >         16.10 onward. The lisp build fails.
>     >         >             >          
>     >         >             >         I finally tracked down the problem. Some bright-spot thought it would
>     >         >             >         be a great idea to enable PIE by default.
>     >         >             >         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/PIE
>     >         >             >          
>     >         >             >         So essentially I cannot compile Axiom on any system with
>     >         >             >         GCC 6.2.0 or above.
>     >         >             >          
>     >         >             >         This is misguided on two levels. A language compiler has no business
>     >         >             >         trying to enforce security-related protocols. And the whole idea
>     >         >             >         of address space layout randomization is a subset of the SELINUX
>     >         >             >         (an NSA/SAIC hack) attempt to simulate a harvard architecture
>     >         >             >         machine on a princeton architecture machine, which is failure by design.
>     >         >             >          
>     >         >             >         I may have to change compilers.
>     >         >             >          
>     >         >             >         Tim
>     >         >             >          
>     >         >             >
>     >         >             >      
>     >         >             >
>     >         >
>     >         >             --
>     >         >             Camm Maguire                                        [email protected]
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