El 17/05/14 14:56, Dave Reisner escribió: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:39:47PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez > wrote: >> This is the standard* way used to pass special linker/compiler >> flags such as -fPIE and -pie >> >> * "Standard" in the sense it is understood by many other packages >> and commonly used by distributions. > > This doesn't really make sense to me. I infer from the names of > the variables that these are flags passed to the compiler for > binaries which will eventually be setuid root.
That was the initial purpose of this variable, yes. Currently is just to provide a separate variable for hardened builds. Note that I did not came up with this idea, It is just the way things are done elsewhere, where elsewhere is util-linux, policykit, various gnome components,enlightment,samba etc.. -- Cristian "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel