ProPolice/SSP in 7.0

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:52:02 +0100
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:

> Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer at googlemail.com> writes:
> > I've known about ProPolice/SSP for a while now (from the Gentoo
> > world) and am aware that FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't yet support it though
> > I know of Jeremy Le Hen's patches
> > (http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/FreeBSD/SSP/).
> 
> Wrong.  FreeBSD 7 has had SSP support since May; the patch you mention
> just turns it on by default.  You can probably achieve the same effect
> by adding -fstack-protector to CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS in make.conf.
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no

  Wrong.

  Actually, FreeBSD 7 _compiler_ has SSP support, but a lot of necessary
changes from Jeremy to enable it by default for 'make buildworld' and
allow switching of SSP on/off for subsequent builds never made it to the
tree.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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