Orphaning GCL

[Jerry James]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in taking it.  It looks like Camm Maguire is the Debian
> maintainer.  He's got a massive patch for Debian, which appears to
> address at least some of the problems we are having in Fedora.  I
> tried an initial build, but ran into a rather strange problem.  Try to
> compile this:
>
> int main() {
> #include <unistd.h>
>  return 0;
> }
>
> I can compile it with -O.  I can compile it with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
> But I cannot compile it with -O -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE.  GCC spews a whole
> bunch of errors about formerly extern functions now declared as
> static.  Is that a glibc header bug?  It is preventing GCL's sbrk
> randomization code from compiling.
>
> If we can get that worked out, I would like to take GCL.

This is now https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469866 and I
have a workaround for it.  I'll take GCL.
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Jerry James
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