From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxqPd-0007ZU-T7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:04:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0F7FE07D8; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from titan.bumpin.org (mail.bumpin.org [69.62.137.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF089E07D8 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a (barrier.bumpin.org [69.62.137.201]) by titan.bumpin.org (ESMTP) with ESMTPSA id 43D2713169 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:04:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Malm Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-hardened] NOTICE: GCC 4.3.4 going stable on Hardened Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:02:39 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910131602.39481.gengor@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e922eea2-bedb-46bc-8a9a-253ecaaf1821 X-Archives-Hash: bc73e13380fcad0c682047dd5cb029e3 Hello Hardened users, this is just a quick heads up. GCC 4.3.4 will be going stable on hardened profiles shortly. Unlike Hardened GCC 3.4.6, this version lacks default SSP building. However, FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 and -fno-strict-overflow are now enabled by default. Other Hardened compiler features (ex. default relro, bind now & pic/pie building) remain enabled - no change from 3.4.6. It is regretable this must be done before GCC4 is SSP-by-default enabled. However, more and more packages require the newer GCC. The stable GCC on Hardened has been GCC 3.4.6 for a long time, but this has become an untenable situation. GCC4 SSP-by-default works and will be added in a later revision - some GCC4+SSP bugs in grub and glibc also remain to be fixed. Please follow '2. General Upgrade Instructions' in the 'Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide' [1] when upgrading from GCC 3.4.x to GCC 4.3.x. The upgrade should be relatively smooth, but if you run into upgrade troubles seek help via this mailing list, bugs.gentoo.org, or irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-hardened. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml Sincerely, Gordon Malm (gengor)