Re: Disabling "PKGSRC_USE_FORTIFY" per package?

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:46:03 +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
>> (The topic, like many things pkgsrc, is not terribly visible. Googling
>> for "PKGSRC_USE_FORTIFY" brings up eight hits.)
> 
> Well, I've been documenting it, and I am touring around the world to 
> talk about it this year...

That's great.

But a presentation on a *BSD conference does not replace an 
announcement and subsequent discussion on tech-pkg@, nor a chapter 
added to doc/pkgsrc.txt.

And this is a recurring theme with newly-conceived pkgsrc configuration 
options, where a web search will come up with cvs change logs, at best, 
but you usually have to grep -R pkgsrc/* with likely names, and read 
the code. Or mail tech-pkg@, substantially increasing turnaround times.

> Some developers have been setting PKGSRC_USE_FORTIFY=no in individual 
> packages already.

So I'll set that for xemacs, although a separate per-package variable 
name would be more elegant.

Cheerio,
hauke

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