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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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