[Pkg-ace-devel] Hardening

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Thomas Girard <thomas.g.girard at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 21/03/2011 11:41, Pau Garcia i Quiles a écrit :
>> Hi Johny,
>>
>> 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 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.
>
> Does this process change the size of binary packages, and if so, how
> much? Did you try a TAO program?

It does change the size of binary packages but the difference is
negligible (some binaries are slightly bigger, others slightly
smaller).

Binary compatibility should not be affected.

I tried to build OpenDDS but it didn't work (apparently it's an issue
with OpenDDS).

> If everything looks good, then we'll make an upload with these changes.
> Also note the 6.0.2 is approaching (ETA: end of month).

OK

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