[OT] gcc, ssp, pie, and thunk

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:31:58PM -0700, walt wrote:
> Yes, yes, I already have two different gcc's on DFly also.  The
> extra feature that gentoo's 'gcc-config' provides is an app
> called 'fix_libtool_files' (in perl, IIRC) which runs around
> looking for those god-forsaken *.la (Libtool Archive) files which
> are hard-wired to one version of g++ and patches them to reflect
> your current choice of compiler versions.

You don't fix the *libtool archives*, you fix *libtool*. That's where it
wires the GCC specific parts in and nowhere else.

PIE is not worth it, the performance hit is too big (since it basically
demands PIC for everything).

Joerg