On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:38:00PM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > there's a few problems with trying to get configure to detect whether > the host assembler supports the --noexecstack option: > - it's very easy to get the detection wrong and i'd bet money that > anyone doing it for the first time would screw it up > - it'll only fix the package if the host binutils are new enough ... > this is becoming less of a problem every day, but it's still > not uncommon > - patching the code to use .note.GNU-stack would work regardless of > the binutils version
Okay, thanks for the info.
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