From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964816AbWGBSBy (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:01:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964841AbWGBSBy (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:01:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:8170 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964816AbWGBSBx (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:01:53 -0400 Message-ID: <44A809E1.4040001@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:01:05 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Robert Hancock , Miles Lane , Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm5 -- Busted toolchain? -- usr/klibc/exec_l.c:59: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail' References: <44A802FE.2020203@shaw.ca> <44A80614.3090802@zytor.com> <1151862663.3111.27.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1151862663.3111.27.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> There is a good answer to that question, and that is, the kernel is the >> special case. It DOES make sense to let the distribution set the >> default to whatever they think the end user should use for applications. > > yeah.. but it's called "CFLAGS environment variable" :-) > Absolutely not. Setting a CFLAGS environment variable has an effect which is at very best unpredictable when dealing with a great span of applications. Setting a CC environment variable is actually safer in many ways, but even that is cantankerous. -hpa