Re: [Mesa3d-dev] New configure option for mesa (autotools patch)

[Dan N. <dbn...@gm...>]

2010/8/4 Tomáš Chvátal <sca...@ge...>:
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> Dne 2.12.2009 03:33, Dan Nicholson napsal(a):
>> 2009/12/1 Tomáš Chvátal <sca...@ge...>:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am cleaning bugs open in gentoo for mesa and i found one with patch attached
>>> to it, which is applicable upstream.
>>>
>>> Patch just allows us to to disable writable relocations in gl. It is "must"
>>> for users using PaX and others. For more detailed rationale please look onto
>>> bug in our bugzilla [1]
>>>
>>> Jeremy Huddleston created the patch i attach here and it really fixes the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> So my question is, could you consider applying this for 7.6 7.7 and trunk?
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>> Yeah, that works, although I don't know what the else part is for
>> (enable_glx_rts would already by no).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn...@gm...>
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>> --
>> Dan
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> So guys sorry for restoring this thread but is this going to happen or not?
>
> I know they should consider not using DRI at all if they want their
> security, but the patch will please them for now and it is just few
> lines in configure.ac that will default to off :]

Forgot about this. I don't have any problem with it, and the configure
option only makes the already existing macro visible. If no one pipes
up with any objections, I'll commit it in a couple days.

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Dan