[CFT] SSP Package Repository available

Jerry jerry at seibercom.net
Thu Aug 21 14:32:27 UTC 2014


On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:05:46 +0200, Mathias Picker stated:

>On Mi, 2014-08-20 at 11:34 -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> On 9/21/2013 5:49 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> > Ports now support enabling Stack Protector [1] support on FreeBSD 10
>> > i386 and amd64, and older releases on amd64 only currently.
>> > 
>> > Support may be added for earlier i386 releases once all ports properly
>> > respect LDFLAGS.
>> > 
>> > To enable, just add WITH_SSP=yes to your make.conf and rebuild all ports.
>> > 
>> > The default SSP_CLFAGS is -fstack-protector, but -fstack-protector-all
>> > may optionally be set instead.
>> > 
>> > Please help test this on your system. We would like to eventually enable
>> > this by default, but need to identify any major ports that have run-time
>> > issues due to it.
>> > 
>> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection

I always build my own ports, I don't use pre-compiled packages. If I place
"WITH_SSP=yes" in the /etc/make.conf" file, do I still have to rebuild all
the ports on my system? I am running FreeBSD-10 amd64.

-- 
Jerry
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