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Re: Building a distribution from source?



On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:39, Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> wrote:
>   I've been experimenting with producing a hardened Debian derivitive
>  as a small piece of paid work.  This mostly means compiling things with
>  a stackguard compiler, using format guard, and enforcing policies, etc.

Are you using any extra patches to GCC?  Or just a GCC built with the 
propolice option?

How difficult is it to bootstrap this?  Can you compile glibc with these 
options without affecting anything else?

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