Re: SLFS

On December 24, 2003 12:12 pm, Archaic wrote:
>... Before we can do that effectively, someone who is more
> intimately knowledgable with rats, bfbtester, etc, needs to prepare a
> short doc for testing packages so that we can spread out the task among
> many people and produce valid, consistent results.

Someone could start grepping the LFS source for the same functions libsafe 
checks for, and report the method and results. From that we can start to 
build a bug list. There are a few bugs already with propolice in binutils and 
gcc, these should only need a small patch each to fix. Same goes for the 
libsafe bug in gcc. And another bug (build failure) with glibc built on a 
host system with pax that needs investigating. There is an autoconfig script 
available from the propolice ibm homepage, it would help create a 'smarter' 
patch that will detect if -fstack-protector works, and take proper actions. A 
patch like this might be considered by gnu or hjl to add to the main feed.

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