Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/zlib

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:38:15PM +0200, Richard PALO wrote:
> BTW taking distros that don't support ssp in libc hostage without
> communicating any explicit technical nor administrative reasons seems
> abusive. Not to mention additionally blocking upstream gcc
> implementation requirements for -Bdirect on SunOS 64-bit without
> communicating, as of yet, any viable (tested) alternative.

This is bullshit. I gave you a suggestion on how to address either
properly. libgcc_s should not override the libc unwind, which is easily
done by adding a few weak attributes in the right places for Solaris
and/or checking that none of the GNU extensions leak through. Similary
should the stack protector callbacks be provided as weak versions in
libgcc(_s) without the crappy separate library. I will never understand
the GCC mentality of "we rule the world with our runtime, except when we
don't want to". The amount of breakage the misguided versioning in
libgcc_s alone has created...

Joerg