Re: 2.6.25-mm1: not looking good

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:31 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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