Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/perl5

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2014-05-10 at 14:39 BST, Richard PALO wrote:

> Module Name:  pkgsrc
> Committed By: richard
> Date:         Sat May 10 13:39:57 UTC 2014
> 
> Modified Files:
>       pkgsrc/lang/perl5: distinfo
>       pkgsrc/lang/perl5/patches: patch-ca
> 
> Log Message:
> Put back -fstack-protector on solaris in perl after libtool fix.

I'm not sure which libtool fix this is referring to, but the reason I
disabled this in the first place is because it causes problems with
packages which do not correctly link against -lssp.

Re-introducing it has again caused packages to fail, you can see this
most clearly in graphics/graphviz which is currently the 3rd top
broken package:

  
http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/pkgsrc/public/reports/upstream-trunk32/20140625.2120/graphviz-2.38.0nb1/build.log

It's too late to fix this now during the freeze as any change to perl
would result in massive rebuilds, but it's something we need to do
after the branch.  My personal preference is to just disable it, but
again I'm not sure what the libtool fix is or whether it's supposed to
be handling this.

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com