FORTIFY build failures (was: Re: [ubuntu/jaunty] conntrack 1:0.9.7-1.1ubuntu1 (Accepted))

[James Westby]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 08:42 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:11:59AM +0000, James Westby wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 17:47 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > Well, as you say, it's always different.  The way I've tended to triage
> > > them is:
> > 
> > This is good advice, do you think it should go on the wiki page?
> 
> Probably -- I'm not sure how it should be incorporated, though.  The
> CompilerFlags page currently has a case-by-case analysis of each kind of
> warning the flags might throw.  What do you think would make a readable
> arrangement?  I was pondering a separate page for triage, or maybe just a
> stand-alone section on the page?

I think having a section at the end where we can collect advice on how
to deal with some of the failures that this causes would be good.

Thanks,

James