Re: pkg/51800: gnutls w/accelerated asm routines runs afoul of PAX MPROTECT on -current/i386

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51800; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/51800: gnutls w/accelerated asm routines runs afoul of PAX
 MPROTECT on -current/i386
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:25:36 -0600 (CST)

 On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, John D. Baker wrote:
 > I just noticed the following commit:
 > 
 >   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2017/01/10/msg151353.html
 > 
 > The changelog notes position-dependent code in the i386 AESNI assembly
 > routines and reversion to an older verion which is not position dependent.
 > 
 > This may address the issue in this PR.
 
 Confirmed.  Updating "security/gnutls" (and "security/libtasn1") to HEAD
 and removing the workaround produces gnutls libraries that do not cause
 ld.elf_so to complain about text relocations on i386-current.
 
 Possibly pull these up to pkgsrc-2016Q4?
 
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