Project:Toolchain/23.0 profile transition

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A project management page for the 23.0 profile transition.

General information

  • The tracker for the 23.0 profiles is bug #876891
  • Ongoing work can be found on a Github pull request 27903 (please check regularly, commits will be cherry-picked for merging and more will be added)

Planned specific issues, all arches

bug #675050: Enable GCC's -fstack-clash-protection by default

  • control useflag added to gcc-13
  • useflag forced on hardened and 23.0
  • done
  • may want to port also to a later gcc-12 release?

bug #818376: adopt SHT_RELR/DT_RELR relative relocation format

  • requires on upgrade dependency on glibc-2.36
  • done (via LDFLAGS, only on amd64, x86, ppc, ppc64; otherwise not implemented yet)

bug #831045: remove USE=cli default and inline into ebuilds

  • trivial
  • done

bug #849875: remove USE=dri default, clean up make.defaults

  • trivial
  • done

bug #876881: make merged usr the default configuration

  • the changes in the profiles are trivial (renaming)
  • requires now testing
  • what do we do with openrc profiles? we offer both there
  • done
  • make sure that people do not switch during the profile upgrade

bug #876923: enable "-z relro -z now" by default in the linker

  • -z relro is already default since 2017
  • -z now is enabled by the hardened code in gcc and can be moved out into vanilla there
  • control useflag added to gcc-13
  • useflag forced on hardened and 23.0
  • done
  • may want to port also to a later gcc-12 release?

bug #878119: rename clang to llvm in profile names

  • implementation trivial
  • done

bug #878157: add systemd/hardened profiles, make systemd/selinux inherit them

  • done

bug #917396: get rid of -gentoo- in musl CHOST setting

  • CHOST change but nothing else, fairly easy
  • done

Planned specific issues, single arches

bug #515694: Update MIPS profiles to use ABI-specific CHOST

  • MIPS-specific
  • In default/linux/23.0/mips..., set the correct CHOST. That's all.
  • done
  • requires on upgrade the usual CHOST-changing acrobatics

bug #882815: transition ppc64le 23.0 profiles to 128-bit IEEE long double ABI

Draft migration notes

The upgrade instructions are still work in progress. They can be found on a separate page.

Deferred / postponed issues

bug #876883: time64 migration for 32bit arches

  • upstream not many understand the problem and coordination between distros has failed
  • first we need to figure out what we want
  • probably best to add the time64 variants as new profiles
  • postponed

bug #882825: align to 32-bit rather than 16-bit on m68k with -malign-int

  • this breaks about just everything and thus makes a complex migration necessary
  • adjustments to glibc may be required
  • new CHOST?
  • postponed

bug #917677: move ppc64 to ELFv2 ABI?

  • unclear what the benefit is
  • postponed