Re: Firefox52 broken on NetBSD9.3 / pkgsrc-2022Q4

[email protected] (Michael van Elst) Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:44:47 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Organization Serpens User Group
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Connor McLaughlan) writes:

>Release notes tell:
>" - PKGSRC_USE_MKPIE was enabled on some architectures.  Packages that
>   provide static libraries to other packages should be rebuilt with
>   MKPIE enabled.  Some packages may experience runtime errors on
>   platforms like i386 - usually this is due to unsafe assembly code,
>   which should be disabled when MKPIE is enabled.
> - PKGSRC_USE_SSP was bumped from "yes" to "strong".  This is not
>   expected to have a noticable effect."

Sounds like either a compiler/linker bug for MKPIE or an application bug
that is now detected by the 'strong' SSP.