Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:49:08 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-mm1: not looking good |
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:31 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > I repulled all the trees an hour or two ago, installed everything on > an 8-way x86_64 box and: > > > stack-protector: > > Testing -fstack-protector-all feature > No -fstack-protector-stack-frame! > -fstack-protector-all test failed
do you have a stack-protector capable GCC? I guess not.
This is a catch-22. You do not have stack-protector. Should we make that a silent failure? or do you want to know that you don't have a security feature you thought you had.... complaining seems to be the right thing to do imo.
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