Re: [PATCH] Fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC whencompiling

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/08/2009 05:47 PM, Jory A. Pratt wrote:
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> I have sent this to the lkml, it seems to have been pushed to the back
> burner. This is a major issue effecting users/developers that are
> working on a much more security enhanced system. This means any gentoo
> user running a hardened toolchain will have problems building a kernel
> that works as expect. This patch does nothing but pass the macro
> - -D__KERNEL__ to ensure that hardened toolchain drops back to that of a
> vanilla toolchain to prevent unexpected compile problems in the kernel.
> 

This should also be sent to the Kbuild maintainer, Sam Ravnborg
<sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>.

	-hpa
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