On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:59:55PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> Note that in 3.11, the "configure" script will have options to specify
> how to call the assembler (for ocamlopt-generated assembly code and
> for the hand-written asm files in the runtime system).  So it might be
> sufficient to configure the Gentoo packages with e.g.
> 
> configure -as "as --noexecstack" -aspp "gcc -c -Wa,--noexecstack"
> 
> This could be one of the rare cases where addressing the issue at the
> level of the packages is safer than by changing the source distribution.

Fair enough.  I'll check this out and get back if it doesn't work.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat