[bug #17646] glibc: ``-z relro''

[Thomas Schwinge]

URL:
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                 Summary: glibc: ``-z relro''
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: tschwinge
            Submitted on: Friday 09/08/06 at 10:37
                Category: glibc
                Severity: 4 - Important
                Priority: 7 - High
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Reproducibility: Every Time
              Size (loc): None
         Planned Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

Binutils 2.16 introduced ``-z relro'', which glibc uses if available and
which makes the dynamic loader crash on GNU/Hurd, probably because it is
somewhere being used too restrictively.

We currently work around that by specifying ``libc_cv_z_relro=no'' when
configuring glibc.







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