98600 – xorg 6.8.2-r2 and SSP

Bug 98600 - xorg 6.8.2-r2 and SSP

Summary: xorg 6.8.2-r2 and SSP

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers

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Reported:	2005-07-10 14:50 UTC by Robert Scott
Modified:	2005-10-12 19:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Robert Scott 2005-07-10 14:50:56 UTC

As of 20050710, xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2.ebuild line 871/872 says:

# Ajax is the man for getting this going for us
echo "#define ProPoliceSupport YES" >> ${HOSTCONF}

Please don't do this - not all of us have compilers which understand SSP and
this causes the compile to fail (when linking the xserver). I really hate having
to hotwire ebuilds just because my compiler is monstorously out of date (2.95.3).

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-10 15:52:05 UTC

Can someone please enlighten me on the lowest gcc version supporting SSP?

Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-10 19:31:07 UTC

Donnie about 3.0/3.1 @ gentoo. Only 2.95.x is not supported by
pie/ssp/nonow/relro/etc.. 
gcc-3.x has support to compile code as 2.95 did so the user should try an upgrade.
gcc-2.9x remains in the tree only for historic reasons at this point.
It's not an ideal profile (default-linux/x86/gcc2) as the glibc the gcc deps on is 
vuln, so we no longer actively support it.

Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-12 19:55:54 UTC

Not supporting this configuration.