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Build failure on MSYS2 (undefined reference to _chk functions)

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Message #41 received at 37852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: rcopley <at> gmail.com, 37852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37852: Build failure on MSYS2 (undefined reference to _chk
 functions)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 21:51:00 +0300

> Cc: 37852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rcopley <at> gmail.com
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:27:48 -0700
> 
> > Should we perhaps test for -lssp, and if it is found, add it to the
> > link command when we define _FORTIFY_SOURCE?
> 
> If this is done only on MSYS2 platforms, and if -lssp is used only when 
> it causes otherwise-failing programs to work, then it should be OK. I 
> wouldn't do it elsewhere because on Fedora at any rate, -lssp used to be 
> trouble and was best avoided.

Right.

> It vaguely sounds like MSYS2 is trailing Fedora and so is experiencing 
> problems Fedora had a few years ago (see, e.g., 
> <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4973>).

I actually think it's a bug in MSYS2, and hope they will fix it soon.
So perhaps we should just wait and see if the current situation, after
your patch, is good enough.

Thanks.

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