Re: port-m68k/59508: Change reqest - disable ssp for m68k ports and packages

["Nat Sloss via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-m68k/59508; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nat Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: port-m68k-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: port-m68k/59508: Change reqest - disable ssp for m68k ports and packages
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 22:18:05 +1000

 On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 00:20:01 Martin Husemann via gnats wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-m68k/59508; it has been noted by
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: port-m68k/59508: Change reqest - disable ssp for m68k ports
 > and packages
 > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 16:15:37 +0200
 > 
 >  On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 02:10:01PM +0000, nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost 
 wrote:
 >  > If you build tools & release with ssp X will not start (originally I
 >  > thought this was just limited to Xfont libs) and same for some packages
 >  > ie Motif and x11/tinyx-wscons.
 > 
 >  Aren't those bugs in X or the pkgs, which should be fixed instead?
 >  Some X stuff seems to work fine (I used rxvt on amiga very recentish,
 >  but did not start an X server).
 > 
 >  Or is this a compiler bug that should be analyzed in more detail?
 > 
 >  Martin
 
 
 Agreed! It was really a suggestion as a stop-gap measure before -11.
 
 So far I've adressed the issue with libXfont and X11 works with SSP enabled.
 
 I just have to rebuild my small set of packages again with ssp to see if all 
 is well.  If it is I'm happy to close the PR.
 
 
 Best regards,
 
 Nat