Bug 36919

Summary:	fcron dies when trying to detect vim on a hardened-gcc compiled system
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) <zhen>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) <zhen>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	blocker	CC:	base-system
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	fcron-2.0.0-r4.ebuild fixup

Description John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-31 14:34:42 UTC

on ./configure, fcron fails to detect that /usr/bin/vim is an executable because it is a shared object thanks to hardened-gcc (and -pie).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. hardened-gcc -A
2. emerge fcron
3.

Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-01 14:46:04 UTC

Created attachment 22979 [details, diff]
fcron-2.0.0-r4.ebuild fixup

Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-01 14:49:52 UTC

I don't think hgcc has anything to do with this from my tests.

What I think is happening here is the full path to your editor is probably not 
being passed at build time. I've attached a patch which I think would resolve 
this problem for everybody affected. If working then please test and then 
reassign bug to base if needed and or get us permission to add the fix.


 src_compile() {
+	EDITOR=$(type -path ${EDITOR})
+

Comment 3 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-08 02:21:06 UTC

zhen, 
show me some love here does the fix work or not?

Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-23 22:25:17 UTC

i think that this was more of a catalyst bug.

Comment 5 Fabrice Aneche 2004-04-19 01:33:53 UTC

This error is not related to hardened-gcc at all, I've got the same error on basic install, I've just changed the /etc/rc.conf to EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim".
So this is related to the way how fcron configure look for vi/vim.