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From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security-flags: Deal with powerpc build issues
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 04:40:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530DD29A.9030807@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393414543.31769.110.camel@ted>

On 2014-02-26 04:35, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> 
> Building powerpc machines with the standard security flags generated numerous
> build failures. Use a reduced set of flags for now to avoid linker issues
> and other compile failures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> index e7d4933a..b5489d8 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> +++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ SECURITY_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-all -pie -fpie -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
>  SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
>  SECURITY_LDFLAGS ?= "-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now"
>  
> +# powerpc does not get on with pie for reasons not looked into as yet
> +SECURITY_CFLAGS_powerpc = "-fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
> +# Deal with ppc specific linker failures when using the cflags
> +SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-dbus_powerpc = ""
> +SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-dbus-ptest_powerpc = ""
> +SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libmatchbox_powerpc = ""
> +SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-webkit-gtk = ""

The change for webkit doesn't seem to be PowerPC specific?  If it needs
to be here, shouldn't it be in a separate change, or at least documented
in the change log?

> +
>  SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-aspell = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
>  SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-beecrypt = "${SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS}"
>  # Curl seems to check for FORTIFY_SOURCE in CFLAGS, but even assigned

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-26 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-26 11:35 [PATCH] security-flags: Deal with powerpc build issues Richard Purdie
2014-02-26 11:40 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2014-02-26 12:00   ` Richard Purdie

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