[gentoo-user] Grub, Hardened, and AMD64

["Michael Crute" <mcrute@gmail.com>]

I am building a server (AMD Opteron 64) and as a matter of policy I
always run the hardened profile on my servers. Now this is my first
time doing an install on an AMD64 architecture with hardened and so
far it has gone relatively well. The thing that is giving me the most
problems is Grub. When I try to emerge it in the hardened chroot the
config script bombs out with an error 'C compiler cannot create
executables'. One suggested solution was to disable sandbox in
features and try again, no such luck. My next thought was to build a
second chroot with a regular (non-hardened) tarball and build a
package of grub (compiled using the static useflag) then emerge that
in the hardened environment. Does this make sense? Is it likely to
work or should I be doing something else? Any help would be
appreciated.

Note that simply not using the hardened profile is not an option here.

-Mike

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