[pacman-dev] makepkg default flags

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Feb 3 00:00:31 UTC 2021


On 3/2/21 7:57 am, Christopher W. via pacman-dev wrote:
> A few months back there was a proposal to edit the default makepkg build flags for improved security:
> 
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2020-July/030031.html
> 
> As far as I can tell, this was never committed. The show-stopper at the time was Clang 11 not being released yet. Now that it's been in the repos for a while, could we revisit this improvement and possibly get a mass rebuild with it applied?
> .
> 

This is on the cards again with slight alterations.   I have written a
proposal that will go through the new RFC process (not live yet), which
will stop things like this getting lost in the future.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/allan/rfcs/-/blob/buildflags/rfcs/00xx-buildflags.rst


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