Re: [Geekos-devel] Possible bug, or just me

[J K <art...@gm...>]

>
> I have believe a better fix for this would be sensing the version of GCC,
> and including the switch if the version is high enough - I believe all the
> stack protector stuff started being available with GCC 4.  I'll probably
> work on a script tonight.
>

After more research and thought, I am thinking a note in the documentation
rather than a patch is more appropriate - it looks like the stack protector
is enabled by default in Ubuntu Edgy, as well as a few other distributions,
however, it appears to have not been integrated into the standard GCC build.

I think a documentation note to add an environment variable that the
Makefile is aware of might be the best solutions - I'm a little hesitant to
use CFLAGS, as folks might have something else in there.  Perhaps
GEEKOS_CFLAGS.