Yes - thank you Joe.
I'm still concerned that a tool like autoconf (which builds
binaries) should be taught to do this at a higher level, across
most autoconf libraries. But it's clearly not that easy to do.
Bill
At 12:27 PM 1/25/2005, Joe Orton wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:45:42AM -0600,
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:45:42AM -0600, William Rowe wrote:
> I'm --very-- confused by the first commit this morning. Care
> to answer the questions below before we keep throwing options
> and more config gook into an already crufty build system?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.devel
I'm --very-- confused by the first commit this morning. Care
to answer the questions below before we keep throwing options
and more config gook into an already crufty build system?
My biggest concern is that this certainly doesn't seem to be
a good candidate for individual build scripts. This se
Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
--On Friday, January 21, 2005 2:46 PM + Joe Orton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Modern versions of GCC/binutils/... support flags which allow building
"Position Independent Executables". This a Security Feature (TM) which
means that executables can be loaded at non-fix
I'm wondering - we already have a pretty massive list of odds-n-ends
option flags...
does it make sense to;
1. make this default for GCC builds?
2. document how to use LDFLAGS/CFLAG to accomplish the same?
It seems the mechanism already exists and proliferating flags
gets a bit nutty. If w
--On Friday, January 21, 2005 2:46 PM + Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Modern versions of GCC/binutils/... support flags which allow building
"Position Independent Executables". This a Security Feature (TM) which
means that executables can be loaded at non-fixed locations, making it
ha
Modern versions of GCC/binutils/... support flags which allow building
"Position Independent Executables". This a Security Feature (TM) which
means that executables can be loaded at non-fixed locations, making it
harder to write some types of exploit.
It's slightly awkward to build httpd like thi
