Re: [PATCH] Link to -lssp when available (fixes mingw build)

["Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:08 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:56:26 -0600
> > Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> >
> > > Is there a way to link against libssp.a statically?  If so, it would
> > > be better to do that.  Failing that, I'd recommend not to define
> > > _FORTIFY_SOURCE in MinGW builds, because the above annoyances IMO
> > > outweigh its utility.
> >
> > Looks like the way to do that would be  -Wl,-Bstatic -lssp -Wl,-Bdynamic
> >
> > However, I'm not sure that all the required autoconf changes are worth
> > it at this point, and maybe we should just not define _FORTIFY_SOURCE
> > on mingw? I'll send a patch for that shortly.
>
> Thanks, I think it's a good solution for one more reason: searching
> the Internet for related issues suggests that Cygwin doesn't package a
> static libssp library, so a static link against that might be
> impossible for a Cygwin build of GDB.  (Please take that with a grain
> of salt, as I don't use Cygwin and know very little about it; what
> I've read on the Internet might be outdated.)

My cygwin installation does have a static ssp:
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-pc-msdosdjgpp/5.4.0/libssp.a
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-pc-msdosdjgpp/5.4.0/libssp_nonshared.a
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp.a
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp.dll.a
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp_nonshared.a
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp.a
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp.dll.a
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.4.0/libssp_nonshared.a
/usr/lib/libssp.a

But I'm not sure that for cygwin this matters as much anyway.

(If libssp_nonshared.a existed on my "native" mingw that would be
great, but sadly it doesn't...)

Christian