-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maurice van der Pot wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:10:25PM -0400, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > >>Take a look at dev-libs/glib/files/glib-2.6.3-testglib-ssp.patch to see >>how solar and I dealt with a similar issue with tests and ssp. See if >>you can adapt it, we just forced -fno-stack-protector after the CFLAGS >>pulled in from the system. >> > > > Ok, so I thought it was all well and good, but now a bug report made me > realise that gcc < 3.4 doesn't have -fpie/-fno-pie. > > Here's the problem: > 1) valgrind has some features that only work with -fpie > 2) valgrind's tests fail to build with -fpie > 3) because of the hardened gcc profile, valgrind's tests need -fno-pie > 4) simply patching some makefiles to add -fno-pie for tests is not > possible because gcc < 3.4 doesn't support -fno-pie > 5) having the valgrind developers modify their configure/makefiles to > add -fno-pie for tests in case gcc supports it is not enough, because > user CFLAGS are appended and CFLAGS in make.conf may contain -fpie > 6) using filter-flags to get rid of -fpie in user's CFLAGS actually > adds -fno-pie and disables features referred to in 1) > > What do I do now? > > Why is -fno-pie being added by filter-flags anyway? > > Maurice. > Sorry for the dumb question but was do -fpie and -fno-pie do?
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