From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.96]:28116 "EHLO QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20808607AbZBZCtD (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:49:03 +0000 Received: from OMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.59]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LRMT1b0031GhbT859Soxsh; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:48:57 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.13] ([69.140.18.238]) by OMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LSow1b00R58Be2l3TSoxCu; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:48:57 +0000 Message-ID: <49A60310.9030900@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:48:48 -0500 From: Kumba User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manuel Lauss CC: Ralf Baechle , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: GCC-4.3.3 sillyness References: <20090130074407.GA12368@roarinelk.homelinux.net> <20090131085957.399614d1@scarran.roarinelk.net> <49A4D370.3080300@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <49A4D370.3080300@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 21969 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Kumba wrote: > > Yeah, I did some digging and it looks like we added a patch called > "10_all_gcc-default-format-security.patch" into our gcc-4.3.3 ebuild. > The patch claims it was ripped from Debian; can any Debian devs comment > on whether you guys still use this patch and what the idea behind it > is? I'm not sure if I'll find any discussion on our end as to why it's > included without finding Mike (vapier) around. Looks like Gentoo and Debian aren't alone. This was discussed on lkml because other mainstream distros are enabling it as a default as well, so the proposed solution is to just disable the format check in the kernel: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/4/259 -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS kumba@gentoo.org "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic