Re: relro

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org>]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 23:45:25 +0200, Louis Bettens wrote:
> Looking beyond mindless lintian compliance, if we, debian, care
> about putting relro on all executables, shouldn't we patch software
> like xmonad and dyre which an executable from user customization to
> have them compiling it with relro?
> 
> And if I am to hack hlibrary.mk, shouldn't I put a reference to the
> $LDFLAGS variable so that every flag in it gets applied?

Would it not make sense at that point to simply patch ghc to always add the
flag to the link (unless told not to) ?

D.

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