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On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:27:51PM -0500, Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:
> > beginning with 5.10.something, perl enforces the use of -fstack-protector,
> > even when Configure was explicitly told the compiler flags, and there is
> > no way to switch it off.
>
> I agree with your general premise that it should be possible to get
> Configure to do what you need it to do in order to build perl the way you
> want to build it.
just saw your reply by accident (I wasn't included in your reply's
address).
> I should point out, however, that while it isn't easy, it is possible to
> turn it off by running Configure interactively and removing it when
> prompted.
Yeah, or by perl -pi -e 's/...' Configure, which is wat I am doing now.
> I wasn't aware that gcc might be misleading us this way. If you could
> supply us with a better test program, that would be very helpful.
Presumably, you would just need to run the program and if it crashes,
assume -fstack-protector doesn't quite work.
> > so... please please please make -fstack-protector configurable somehow,
> > better yet, don't override user-specified flags and/or improve the tets
> > for platform support.
>
> Unfortunately, other users do rely on us supplementing the user-specified
> C flags,
I primarily asked for a way to disable -fstack-protector. Somehow.
So, which other users rely on your enforcing -fstack-protector? Is there
really any platform that needs that flag? I doubt that, so that argument
simply doesn't apply.
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