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authorPierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@neuf.fr>2022-10-18 09:59:00 +0200
committerPierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@neuf.fr>2022-10-18 10:43:10 +0200
commitb00c7d9905aaf0ae3a6cc2cb19f2bc02057e640f (patch)
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parent0f9c02a9bfe70b119c5456f8a9019f9fb725e58c (diff)
Clarify why pie might be disabled
Just reading a textbook and LFS does not imply anything for compilation...
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<para>In the 11.3 release, <parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter>
and <parameter>--enable-default-ssp</parameter> are enabled for GCC.
These techniques can mitigate some malicious attacks, but they do not provide
- perfect security. If you are reading LFS and a programming textbook,
+ perfect security. Note that some textbooks assume these options are
+ disabled, so that if you run examples from such a textbook on an LFS system,
you may need to disable PIE and SSP with the GCC options
- <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>,
- because some textbooks assume these options are disabled by default.</para>
+ <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>.</para>
<para>Here is a list of the packages updated since the previous
release of LFS.</para>