Modern versions of GCC/binutils/... support flags which allow building
Position Independent Executables. This a Security Feature (TM) which
means that executables can be loaded at non-fixed locations, making it
harder to write some types of exploit.
It's slightly awkward to build httpd like
--On Friday, January 21, 2005 2:46 PM + Joe Orton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Modern versions of GCC/binutils/... support flags which allow building
Position Independent Executables. This a Security Feature (TM) which
means that executables can be loaded at non-fixed locations, making it
I'm wondering - we already have a pretty massive list of odds-n-ends
option flags...
does it make sense to;
1. make this default for GCC builds?
2. document how to use LDFLAGS/CFLAG to accomplish the same?
It seems the mechanism already exists and proliferating flags
gets a bit nutty. If
Hi all,
The APR(-util) 1.1.x branch is now at RC1, and a number of LDAP build
fixes for SSL/TLS uspport for Solaris v2.8 and v2.9 and Novell have been
committed to the v1.1.x branch. The SSL support in the Microsoft LDAP
SDK still needs to be tested, as well as on other unix platforms.
httpd
Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
--On Friday, January 21, 2005 2:46 PM + Joe Orton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Modern versions of GCC/binutils/... support flags which allow building
Position Independent Executables. This a Security Feature (TM) which
means that executables can be loaded at non-fixed
