Re: 2.6.17-mm5 -- Busted toolchain? -- usr/klibc/exec_l.c:59: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'

Robert Hancock
2006-07-02T17:31:46Z

Miles Lane wrote:
> Well, from the web page referenced at the top of this message, you
> can see that they are already aware of these issues:
>
> Cons:
> * It breaks current upstream kernel builds and potentially
> other direct usages of gcc. Kernel is by far the most important use
> case. Upstream should change the default options to build with
> -fno-stack-protector by default.
> * It is not conformant to upstream gcc behaviour.

I don't see why the kernel should have to insert compile flags to
counteract any random non-default compile flags that the system may
decide to insert. I think the way Ubuntu has done this is broken, they
are essentially changing the default settings on the compiler in a way
which breaks the kernel due to needing external libraries.

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