> Hi,
> 
> my next migration victim will be mpir, the friendly clone of gmp.  The
> current ebuild is the same in sage-on-gentoo and science.  It has this
> assembler stuff in it that I don't understand.  Who did this? What is
> the latest here, can we remove the fat TODO-banner (or DO it?).
> 
> Any other hints/objections?  (Yes, I know that there is a bump
> waiting...)
> 
Hi Thomas,

Christopher did it. mpir like gmp suffer from executable stacks.
There are talk on sage-devel which is very close to mpir upstream
to take a different approach: using an m4 macro and a linker flag
to remove them -Wl,-z,noexecstack. 
The motivation to fix this is fedora 14 which doesn't allow executable stacks 
by default.
I think the warning could be removed for now but the ebuild will probably
need a little TLC in the near future.

Francois

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