Re: 2.6.17-mm5 -- Busted toolchain? -- usr/klibc/exec_l.c:59: undefinedreference to `__stack_chk_fail'

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Jul 02 2006 - 14:00:29 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
There is a good answer to that question, and that is, the kernel is the special case. It DOES make sense to let the distribution set the default to whatever they think the end user should use for applications.

yeah.. but it's called "CFLAGS environment variable" :-)


Absolutely not. Setting a CFLAGS environment variable has an effect which is at very best unpredictable when dealing with a great span of applications. Setting a CC environment variable is actually safer in many ways, but even that is cantankerous.

-hpa
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