[PATCH 0/2] BZ#10375 fixes

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> I took a crack at this one from Carlos's fix-me-soon list.
> These changes are on the roland/bz10375 branch.
>
> With these fixes, I can build x86_64-linux-gnu on Ubuntu 10.04
> with its stock system compiler (4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1), which does
> both of these inane things.  Previously I was always passing
> CPPFLAGS=-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE and CFLAGS='-g -O2 -fno-stack-protector'
> to configure.
>
> The second one seems especially fragile, but I don't know of a better plan.
> It certainly needs to get some more testing on a wider variety of machines
> and compilers before I'll feel sanguine about merging it.

Thanks for taking a crack at this!

My build script does close to that e.g.
export CFLAGS="-g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -fno-stack-protector"

I think you should feel empowered to call upon the distro maintainers
to help test this:
http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS#Distribution_Maintainers

Cheers,
Carlos.