On 1/23/07, Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
So you should just try it out somewhere in your build system -- gcc -fno-stack-protector -S -xc - < /dev/null -o /dev/null or something similar, grab the return code -- and that's all you need to do.
we'd always managed to avoid this kind of ugliness, but I guess we have no choice.
What's going to get interesting is when the form that this test takes gets broken by the various distros :-)
Some expert person want to try out a fix? If not, I guess I will.
ron