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

H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02T18:01:54Z

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