From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Link to -lssp when available (fixes mingw build)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h81x323k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191218181413.128412-1-cbiesinger@google.com> (gdb-patches@sourceware.org)
> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:14:13 -0600
> From: "Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Cc: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
>
> Recent mingw versions require -lssp when using _FORTIFY_SOURCE, which
> gdb does (in common-defs.h)
> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/5868#issuecomment-544107564
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> 2019-12-18 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
>
> * configure: Regenerate.
> * gdbsupport/common.m4: Look for -lssp to fix mingw.
This will produce a GDB binary that requires libssp-0.dll to be
present to run, won't it? And since libssp-0.dll is part of GCC,
this will have 2 annoying effects:
. we could be in "DLL hell" if there's an incompatibility between
libssp against which GDB was linkes and the one actually installed
on the system where we run GDB;
. if someone wants to distribute MinGW binaries of GDB, they will
have to distribute the GCC sources as well, since DLLs cannot
enjoy the libgcc-type exception
Is there a way to link against libssp.a statically? If so, it would
be better to do that. Failing that, I'd recommend not to define
_FORTIFY_SOURCE in MinGW builds, because the above annoyances IMO
outweigh its utility.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-18 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-18 18:14 Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-18 18:23 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-18 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-18 18:57 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-18 19:07 ` [PATCH v2] Don't define _FORTIFY_SOURCE on mingw Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2020-01-02 11:31 ` Joel Brobecker
2020-01-07 23:43 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2020-01-08 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-09 22:23 ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-09 22:32 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2020-01-10 0:28 ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-10 17:41 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-18 19:08 ` [PATCH] Link to -lssp when available (fixes mingw build) Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-18 19:12 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-18 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-18 19:50 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-18 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-18 20:41 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-18 23:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-18 23:24 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-19 14:19 ` Pedro Alves
2019-12-19 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-15 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-19 20:41 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-12-19 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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