[PATCH 1/2] BZ#10375: Configure magic to use -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE if needed.

Carlos O'Donell carlos@systemhalted.org
Tue May 8 02:09:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> +CPPUNDEFS=
> +dnl Check for silly hacked compilers predefining _FORTIFY_SOURCE.

Please keep the tone professional.

If you can list no other reason than "silly" for why the compiler
predefine _FORTIFY_SOURCE then please ask the distro compiler team to
explain why they are doing this and use their wording in the comment
:-)

Cheers,
Carlos.



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