[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#746825: ACE+TAO 6.2.7

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,
 > In particular, cleaning all the complaints by lintian will take quite
> some work, and I think we will not get ACE into Debian until lintian
> reports zero warnings. I am slowly going through them but there are two
> which are causing me a nightmare:
>
> - Hardening binaries. I'm trying to figure how to force MPC to take the
> gcc hardening flags.

You have to do that through the platform_macros.GNU file, there you can 
control compiler flags.

> - Large-file support. I can check for the right flag in debian/rules,
> outside MPC , and just pass MPC the proper flag, but I feel it's not the
> proper way. Any idea?

Probably debian/rules is the best way to determine it, than add the 
flags to platform_macros.GNU. This all has nothing todo with MPC.

Johnny