Here're the proposed agenda items for this weeks dist meeting. * Use fast linking style:
The linker & glibc in 10.2 support the --hash-style=both (or just gnu) flag, which halves linking time [ still a major cost on all startup]. Unfortunately - it seems we only re-compiled glibc with this flag, and not all the other applications in the system :-) Risk wise this is a no-brainer, RedHat are already shipping with --hash-style=gnu [ this is unfortunate since the binaries are then not back-compatible ]. We should most likely use --hash-style=both (at some small size penalty) - but after some time switch over to --hash-style=gnu to save size. * libata per default (see minutes from last time - the partitioning question is still open) * Enable -fstack-protector for the new distros for every package by default Red Hat according to their press statements builds all of their distribution using -fstack-protector, the heuristic stack overflow detection. While we use -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, this one only covers known arrays. I think we should also enable -fstack-protector for all packages. If we enable it by default in the compiler, all software will automatically get the benefit too. Please send me your comments and additions, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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