On 12/05/2017 02:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/05/2017 03:26 PM, Corbin wrote: >> In "packages" that throw out the "CFLAGS / CXXFLAGS" values in the >> end-users "make.conf" and substitute their own ... how will that be handled? >> > The GCC ebuilds all use toolchain.eclass which is incomprehensible to > me, but it looks like the default behavior for gcc-6.x is to pass > "--enable-default-pie" and "--enable-default-ssp" to the build process > of GCC itself. That changes the default behavior of GCC to (as the names > say) enable PIE and SSP by default. > > Consequently, if a package ignores your CFLAGS, the PIE/SSP should still > take effect, because GCC does them by default. Only a package that adds > its own -no-pie flag (for example) would cause problems. > A Master Override ... in other words.
Thank You. Corbin
