Re: HEADS-UP: Stack Smash Protection enabled by default for amd64 and i386

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:26:43PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> I've improved the makefile settings in the meantime:
> 
> USE_SSP_DEFAULT=no    Old behavior where "libc" and certain daemons
>                       (e.g. "ypserv") get built with SSP, but the
>                       rest of the source tree (including kernels)
>                       get built without SSP.
> 
> USE_SSP=no            Turn off SSP completely. This is however *not*
>                       the previous behaviour



Isn't it a bit more elegant to use just one flag with more possible values?
eg. USE_SSP=yes/no/some, where "some" mathes the old default?


        Geert


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