[OE-core] [PATCH] security-flags: Deal with powerpc build issues

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 04:40 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2014-02-26 04:35, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Building powerpc machines with the standard security flags generated numerous
> > build failures. Use a reduced set of flags for now to avoid linker issues
> > and other compile failures.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> > index e7d4933a..b5489d8 100644
> > --- a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> > +++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> > @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ SECURITY_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-all -pie -fpie -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
> >  SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
> >  SECURITY_LDFLAGS ?= "-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now"
> >  
> > +# powerpc does not get on with pie for reasons not looked into as yet
> > +SECURITY_CFLAGS_powerpc = "-fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
> > +# Deal with ppc specific linker failures when using the cflags
> > +SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-dbus_powerpc = ""
> > +SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-dbus-ptest_powerpc = ""
> > +SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-libmatchbox_powerpc = ""
> > +SECURITY_CFLAGS_pn-webkit-gtk = ""
> 
> The change for webkit doesn't seem to be PowerPC specific?  If it needs
> to be here, shouldn't it be in a separate change, or at least documented
> in the change log?

Sorry, I'll make that powerpc specific, it was meant to be...

Cheers,

Richard