On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/03/15 14:41, Adam Jackson wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 13:45 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote: >>> >>> >>> However I can add my recent story: After hardening perl, loading a DSO >>> by perl failed. I believe the reason was the DSO had an undefined symbol >>> which was not defined in any SO_NEEDed libraries. But because the symbol >>> was never used at run-time, before hardening the executable, run-time >>> linking passed. But after hardening, the -znow feature caused resolving >>> all symbols at link time, including the missing symbol, so dlopen(3) >>> failed. >> >> >> We may want to revisit this, honestly. The actual proposal was just to >> build executables as PIE, right? Forcing -z now is a bit more than >> maybe was expected. > > > On top of which there seems, despite a number of questions posted here since > the change went live, very little assistance from the proposal owners with > fixing packages that have been broken by it. > > Tom > I believe most of the issues should get resolved on its own after the mass rebuild of all the packages. Rel-Eng will do the mass rebuild as soon as they get the green light from Jakub. I tried suggesting 2 mass rebuilds; 1 mass rebuild of all packages right now, and another mass rebuild of all the packages 1 month later when gcc5 becomes more stable, but they said no as it costs too much resources. -Moez -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
