On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Please find attached the hopefully final changes for the compile flags.
> It's a patch against redhat-rpm-config-8.0.36-1.src.rpm. The changes are:
>
> ~ enable stack protector with minimal size 4 (default is 8, too high
> IMO). Vlad ran some tests on SPEC. SPEC is highly CPU intensive,
> unlike 90%+ of the distribution. Even in those tests the performance
> decrease was below 1%, probably even in the noise. Especially the
> decrease of the minimum size to 4 made no measurable impact.
>
> ~ remove the -fsigned-char flag for ppc. glibc has not been compiled
> with the flag anyway, so if anything changes, we eliminate some bugs.
> The only theoretical issue would be if a library we ship uses CHAR_MAX
> in an interface. I personally haven't seen this for good reasons.
> The only interface I know is localeconv(3) in glibc and this interface
> is now corrected.
>
> ~ minor fix for SPARC
Wed Sep 17 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> 8.0.28-1
- Change brp-compress to pass -n flag to gzip (per msw's request)
Tue Jul 15 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> 8.0.27-1
- Fix broken configure macro find for config.guess/config.sub
- Put host/target/build back for now
Mon Jul 07 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 8.0.26-1
- preserve the vendor field when VENDOR not set
- put VENDOR in the final i386-libc line, not the tentative one
Mon Jul 07 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 8.0.25-1
- update config.{guess,sub} to 2003-06-17
- define VENDOR to be redhat only when /etc/redhat-release present
[suggested by jbj]
- put VENDOR in vendor field in our config.guess file for ia64, ppc, ppc64,
s390, s390x, x86_64 and elf32-i386 Linux
- drop the --host, --build, --target and --program-prefix configure options
from %configure, since this causes far too many problems
Fri May 02 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 8.0.24-3
- make config.{guess,sub} executable
Thu May 01 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 8.0.22-2
- add config.guess and config.sub (2003-02-22) with s390 patch on
config.sub
- make %configure use them
Mon Mar 03 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
- Unset $DISPLAY in macros
