F22 System Wide Change: Harden all packages with position-independent code

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 01/19/2015 01:21 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 01/19/2015 01:17 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com
>> <mailto:fweimer at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I wrote a slightly broader proposal, also covering SSE2 (for i386),
>>     and (since today) off_t and ino_t:
>>
>>        <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modernise_GCC_Flags>
>>
>> Would that make it impossible to run fedora on sse-only i686 CPUs?
>
> Yes, but test coverage for those CPUs is already rather poor, so I don't
> expect them to work anymore.

Fedora 21 is working without any problems on these:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
...
model name	: Pentium III (Coppermine)
...
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 
mmx fxsr sse
...

# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)

Ralf