Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues

A change proposal currently undergoing discussion for Fedora 40 would change their toolchain's (BFD) linker to error out on potential security issues. Currently BFD is emitting warnings on potential security problems but the F40 proposal is to instead error out so the program being built will fail to link when hitting recognized security issues...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-BFD-Linker-Errors

[Antennae5101]

Hear, hear!

[StarterX4]

So some of the devs that don't care will have to use the "--no-warn-execstack" and "--no-warn-rwx-segments" linker flags to compile it.