Hi, On 09:41 Wed 10 Nov , Christopher Schwan wrote: > I followed the instructions listed in number 6 of the following page: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml . However, the fix is > incomplete (some architectures still have executable stacks) and I had some > problems with BASH: > > for i in $(find . -type f -name '*.asm') ; do > echo $i >/dev/null > cat >> $i <<-EOF > #if defined(__linux__) && defined(__ELF__) > .section .note.GNU-stack,"",%progbits > #endif > EOF > done > > If I remove the line with "echo" (which *should* be completely useless), the > cat command does not patch files - WHY ?! Also, mpir seemed to have dropped > yasm beginning with mpir-2.1 (?), so I think at least one loop in mpir's > ebuild is superfluous.
I will look into this. What is the state for ppc and prefix ? In short: What keywords should we have on mpir? I can only test ~amd64 and ~x86. > > 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. > > This seems to be a better idea. Will that be available anytime soon? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/
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