Bug 43247 – lilo build fails with hardened gcc-3.3.3-r1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Antony Suter 2004-02-28 20:40:17 UTC]

With USE flag "hardened" set and gcc-3.3.3-r1 installed, sys-boot/lilo-22.5.8-r1 does not compile. Patch to add knowledge of USE flag "hardened" is added.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set USE flag "hardened" in /etc/make.conf
2. ebuild /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.3.3-r1.ebuild merge
3. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" /usr/bin/emerge =sys-boot/lilo-22.5.8-r1

Actual Results:  
Compile fails with error like:
error: can't find a register in class `BREG' while reloading `asm'

Expected Results:  
Compiled successfully.

[Comment 1 Antony Suter 2004-02-28 20:43:05 UTC]

Created attachment 26550 [details, diff]
patch to add "hardened" to lilo-22.5.8-r1.ebuild

This proposed patch adds knowledge of the USE flag "hardened" to the file
/usr/portage/sys-boot/lilo/lilo-22.5.8-r1.ebuild

[Comment 2 Antony Suter 2004-02-28 21:37:57 UTC]

I have learnt that USE flag "hardened" is intended to be internal to the gcc ebuild. Instead USE flags "pic", "pie" and "ssp" should be used where appropriate. I will change the title of this bug report for accuracy.

[Comment 3 Alexander Gabert (RETIRED) 2004-03-01 06:57:07 UTC]

can you try building lilo with CFLAGS="-static"

just a question

[Comment 4 Alexander Gabert (RETIRED) 2004-09-23 18:27:42 UTC]

recent versions honour SSP and PIE building