[systemd-devel] [PATCH] build: Honour SUID_CFLAGS and SUID_LDFLAGS

[Cristian Rodríguez]

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..





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Cristian
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