John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost> writes: > On a sidenote, is PKGSRC_USE_SSP intended to be a user-settable > or package-settable variable. Packages like xenkernel* use it as > if it is package-settable since there was likely nothing better at > the time. It is a user-settable variable. The package-settable variable is missing and hence packages abuse the user-settable variable. I propose the following names for package-settable variables (to be set to no if the given feature must be disabled for a package to build or function correctly), following the precedent of MAKE_JOBS_SAFE: SSP_SAFE FORTIFY_SAFE MKPIE_SAFE RELRO_SAFE STACK_CHECK_SAFE Of course, packages where these are known to work or there's no reason to think they don't work won't set the variable. Any better suggestions for these names? (I left out PKGSRC_ because they will only appear in pkgsrc Makefiles.)
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