[Pkg-ace-devel] Hardening

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

> I don't really understand what you mean.
> 
> When you say "build on trunk" are you talking about ACE or about Debian-ACE?
> 
> The "hardening" is just adding a few flags to the compiler and linker.

I meant try it on regular ACE trunk, so our head dev version. If these
flags lead to new warnings/errors, we should fix them on trunk also.

Johnny

> 
> I have built ACE 6.0.1-1 with hardening flags and there are no
> apparent errors on building. I have modified ACE-DPKG.mwc and
> TAO-DPKG.mwc to build tests (it fails at a given point) and run all
> the tests that built fine, then compared the logs for a build with
> hardening flags and for a build without and I see no additional errors
> in the build with hardening flags.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen at remedy.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Wouldn't it be a better solution to just first set these flags in a
>> build on trunk, make sure all errors are gone, and than enable it with
>> debian?
>>
>> Johnny
>>
>> On 03/10/2011 07:28 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've recently adopted hardening flags for witty and libmsn. Changes
>>> are rather easy. What do you think of adopting hardening flags in ACE?
>>>
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening
>>>
>>
>>
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