Re: Bug#834096: binutils: produce unexecutable MIPS binaries with -Wl,-z,noexecstack

On 2016-08-11 23:45, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-08-11 23:12, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Package: binutils
> > Version: 2.27-4
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > binutils 2.27 added support for non-executable PT_GNU_STACK on mips. For
> > that it sets the ABI version to 5 in the ELF headers so that the glibc
> > can set the stack permission accordingly. Unfortunately the glibc part
> > hasn't been merged yet. This means that binaries produced with
> > -Wl,-z,noexecstack can't be executed later. This is the reason why
> > ffmpeg failed to build from source.
> > 
> > I guess we should disabled non-executable PT_GNU_STACK on mips until we
> > get full glibc support. I'll try to work on a patch in the next days,
> > but given my time is currently a bit limited, any help would be
> > appreciated.
> 
> The attached patch should do it. It's basically a revert of the upstream
> commit, so that should work. I haven't tested it yet, I will do it
> tomorrow.

The patch...