Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2013-06-26)

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
> Am 26.06.2013 21:10, schrieb Bill Nottingham:
>> * #1128    switching from "-fstack-protector" to
>>   "-fstack-protector-strong" in Fedora 20  (notting, 18:10:54)
>>   * AGREED: Will switch from "-fstack-protector" to
>>     "-fstack-protector-strong" in Fedora 20. Any reversion based on poor
>>     benchmarks must be decided before any F20 gcc mass rebuild (+:6,
>>     -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 18:28:38)
>
> *thank you* for that
>
> would it be possible to add the patch for supporting
> "-fstack-protector-strong" for F18's GCC which would
> give a larger testbase at least from users like me
> building all serverpackages in the own infrastructure
> currently with "-f-stackprotector-all"?

I would be doubtful the Fedora GCC maintainer would find that
acceptable to backport and push out in a stable Fedora release.  We do
development like this in rawhide for a reason.

josh