On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > NAK. If you have selected CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG, the build > the fail hard. Without this, it means you'll end up with kernels that > build and show a stackprotector option in their config, which is > false. What we really really want to do is to have some way to add config options based on shell scripts and compiler support. That would also get rid of a lot of Makefile trickery etc. Then we could just make CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG depend on CC_SUPPORTS_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG or whatever. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html