[LinuxBIOS] help from ubuntu and FC6 experts

[Segher Boessenkool]

>> You don't have to detect when it's active; you can just always
>> disable it -- well that is, you first have to check if your GCC
>> version supports it at all, it will bail on the command line flag
>> otherwise.
>
> Thats what I meant.  You have to know when to use the disable flag.

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.

Maybe FC6 and/or Ubuntu will change their bad bad ways, but there
are so many of those systems out in the field already, lots of
projects have to protect themselves against this crap now.  Sigh.


Segher