compiling ports with SSP

Bryan Drewery bryan at shatow.net
Thu Apr 26 12:50:59 UTC 2012



On 4/26/2012 5:45 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:30:33PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>>
>> Something to keep an eye on is that some ports may run `file
>> /usr/lib/libc.so` and find that it is an ASCII text file.
>>
>> As I've mentioned, I've been running with SSP in my ports for at least a
>> year now, and with this ld script for several months.
>>
>> The only issue I've ran into is the security/openssl port is looking at
>> /usr/lib/libc.so to see if it is ELF or not, and due to this is falling
>> back on a.out binary format and then generating incorrect ASM. I think
>> this is going to be a pretty rare and specific case though.
> 
> I'm glad to hear that the problem doesn't seem to be widespread.  How
> many ports do you have installed?  Do you have big families like X.Org,
> Gnome or KDE?
> 

No, not running any desktop ports here.

I've only disabled SSP for the gcc ports.

Here's a list of ports that have worked for me:
http://pastebin.com/x9wE7rAq

Also, congrats!

Bryan Drewery

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