Re: [gentoo-hardened] SSP in GCC 4

[Mike Williams <mike@home.gaima.co.uk>]

On Monday 25 January 2010 03:28:24 Michael Edenfield wrote:
> > Is there any news on SSP in GCC 4?
> 
> Use the gcc-4.4 out of the hardened-development overlay.  I've been using
>  the  overlay (4.3, then 4.4) it on all of my servers, plus my personal
>  machines, for almost a year now and so far have only had problems with 1
>  package (sbcl).

The majority of our servers are now running gcc-4.4.2-r2! And we've had no 
trouble we can attribute to the compiler.
Our build machines did the whole emerge -e thing, but on the servers we just 
installed gcc (emerge gcc -Nu1Kv), switched compiler, then updated world 
(emerge world -DNuKv). They all had between 1/2 and 3/4 of their packages 
updated, including all the important stuff (apache, php, rails, nginx, mysql, 
postgres, etc).

I can now build modern Xen kernels too!

Thanks very much.

-- 
Mike Williams