On 05.10.2009 10:53, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:34:30AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Colin Watson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:10:23AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>>>> Using slogin to connect to another machine on the local network results
>>>>> in slogin segfaulting. The ssh daemon is also segfaulting on startup.
>>>>>
>>>>> The machine is a qemu VM but people on the debian-mips mailing list
>>>>> are reporing the same problem on read MIPS hardware.
>>>> That's another instance of the binutils -PIE bug:
>>>>
>>>>
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526961>>>
>>> Indeed, thanks - and #538313 is for the workaround. Will upload soon.
>>
>> Couldn't we just fix binutils to ignore -pie on mips and make it a noop instead
>> of having to patch a lot of packages?
>
> I wouldn't object, obviously, but I'm still going to make the OpenSSH
> problem go away rather than waiting for a binutils fix/workaround. I can
> always undo this change later.
the binutils change was done in a few minutes, to ignore pie you would have to
change gcc-* as well. If somebody wants to provide such a patch ... I'll apply
it. However such a patch does has the disadvantage that you don't see when and
if pie gets fixed without rebuilding the packages.
Matthias
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