Re: building "security/sudo" on evbmips64-el?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, John D. Baker wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, John D. Baker wrote:
> 
> > During the configure phase of "security/sudo", the following is printed:
> > 
> >   checking whether the linker accepts -Wl,-z,relro... no
> > 
> > leading me to try building without taking any special measures.
> 
> After rebuilding "devel/libtool-base" with "CFLAGS+=-Wa,-msoft-float" I
> was able to build "security/sudo".  Apparently the above indication from
> the configure phase is true and the resulting 'sudo' binary works
> properly.

Upon rebuilding "security/sudo" with "CFLAGS+=-Wa,-msoft-float", the
resulting 'sudo' binary fails immediately with "Memory fault" and/or
"Segmentation fault".

I was in the process of rebuilding all packages with the above "soft-float"
workaround.  While essential for "cwrappers", it breaks "sudo".  Its
effect on other packages has not yet been investigated.

Since then I've excluded "security/sudo" from the "soft-float" workaround.

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