[grsec] difference between "new" and "legacy" toolchain

[Peter S. Mazinger]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Marcel Meyer wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> enabling the PAX features requires your applications beeing compiled with "a 
> new toolchain". Now I'm wondering what's that exactly. Does this only mean, 
> I need simply a quite recent gcc/coreutils/etc. or what's so special about 
> the needed toolchain?

new toolchain means binutils + patch from pax.grsecurity.net and 
recompiling all of your apps with it.

Peter

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