Re: [gentoo-hardened] GCC4 (again...)

[Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>]

klondike wrote:
>
>> Apologies for replying to my own post, but I just realised that you
>> were posing the question in the context of klondike's blog post. I do
>> not know what the status of SSP is in the overlays and/or experimental
>> toolchains so I'll bow out and leave it to one of the toolchain gurus
>> to provide a credible response. My answer applies to the gcc ebuild in
>> the mainline tree.
> Although I may be wrong, AFAIK SSP works nice with almost anything 
> except libstdc++, also packages which need it to be disabled (ie 
> thunderbird) usually do it without a problem of after pattching a bit 
> the ebuild. Anyway, I think the best one to answer is Zorry or Xake as 
> they maintain it.

So the Xake overlay is GCC 4.3.2 with the GCC 4 SSP enabled?

My limited understanding is that the GCC 4 (new) SSP implementation 
should be relatively benign and supported already by a modern toolchain 
with no further patches?  I would naively assume that since Redhat (and 
others) seem to be building their distros with it turned on that most 
packages would already be largely patched upstream to cope with it?  
(certainly I am more interested in server packages than desktop packages)

> Anyway, at least on the overlay uclibc is still not supported :( 
> http://github.com/Xake/toolchain-overlay/blob/54581c25b74be5a5dc3d8c1de61dba55db7c639f/README 
>

Does Xake hang out here?  Curious as to what the issues will be found in 
uclibc.  I'm not specially tied to uclibc, just that it seems to work 
nicely so far and I'm not desperately tight on drive space...

Ed W