Re: Switch on compiler hardening defaults

On Oct 25, Kees Cook wrote: > I would like to propose enabling[1] the GCC hardening patches that Ubuntu > uses[2]. Seconded. hardening-wrapper does not looks like a solution to me since it execs perl for each call to gcc and ld when installed (even when inactive). And as you noticed, nobody uses

Bug#552778: udev: preinst fails to detect kernel symbols ???sys_inotify_init??? and ???sys_signalfd???

On Oct 28, Ben Finney wrote: Does anybody know why, and if ther are other architecture-specific cases I need to care about? I checked pescetti.d.o which is powerpc, but it has regular symbols. As a workaround you can create /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade and then manually stop/restart udevd. > The sy

Re: gfdl gcc documentation packages for non-free: update

On Sep 21, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - the man pages (all except gfortran.1) are not built from >source. -> RC As long as the source is available in the package this is not a bug at all. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

On Nov 19, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I think it is time to increase the minimum requirement to 586-class, if > not for wheezy then immediately after. I agree, it's time to weight the costs and benefits of supporting obsolete hardware at the expense of most users. > (Later it should be increased > f

Bug#323016: ICE while compiling tin on m68k

Package: gcc-4.0 Version: 4.0.0-12 Severity: important Compiling tin 1.7.10+20050727 on m68k fails. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -I/usr/include -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -I../include -DUSE_CANLOCK -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -c ./save.c ./save.c: In function 'uudecode_line': ./save

Re: Best way to wrap gcc/g++ calls?

On Jan 01, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wouldn't mess with the real /usr/bin/* binaries/symlinks, and would > do something similar to what ccache does. have a look at /usr/lib/ccache. > (so, apt-build would prepend /usr/lib/apt-build or similar to the PATH.) Agreed. This is w

Bug#292958: gcc 3.3 on powerpc miscompiles BIND 9.3

Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 3.3.5-6 Severity: normal gcc 3.3 apparently does not compile correctly lib/dns/rbt.c from BIND 9.3, which then will die on startup with an assertion failure. Workarounds known to fix this: - compiling rbt.c without -O2 - removing "inline" from rotate_left() and rotate_ri

Bug#1083135: gcc-14-aarch64-linux-gnu: cross compiler 'aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc' always error: "as: unrecognized option '-EL'"

Control: affects -1 + varnish On Feb 14, Helmut Grohne wrote: Fair enough. However, we need some mechanism to redirect gcc into using the "right" as and ld, which is not /usr/bin/{as,ld}. You already ruled out --with-as earlier. This is particularly important for using "reverse cross compilers