We're not entirely happy either.
A much higher interface might look like
TRY_ADD_LINKER_FLAGS -z noexecstack
Agreed. I'm working towards a solution like that.
which would add -Wl,-z,noexecstack to LDFLAGS when appropriate
.... hmmm ...
I only just noticed that both gcc and clang accept simply
$CC -z noexecstack
(it's even documented!)
Should we switch to that instead?
No, I think it's better to keep -Wl,-z for consistency for all linker
flags. Otherwise it just looks confusing.
/Magnus
Do you have a JBS issue?
I have
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205457 gcc and clang should
use the same ld flags
but the proposed patch only addresses part of that. I could create a
sub-task (but I've never done that before) or a new bug or change the
description of this bug. What do you think?
