Original post is here: eklausmeier.goip.de
When compiling GnuCOBOL from source this works without any hiccups. The usual configure
, make
sequence. I had written on this in Generating JSON with COBOL. But if you run make check
you might encounter multiple check-failures when run after makepkg
. The reason is that makepkg
introduces a couple of system-wide CFLAGS
. The cure is to add
1--disable-hardening
to configure
. This was recommended by Simon Sobisch, one of the current maintainers of GnuCOBOL, in a personal communication:
"Historically" GnuCOBOL disabled all optimizations, I highly suggest that you add one of the following options to your
configure
line.
--enable-hardening, --disable-hardening
: Enable GNU C "hardening" options: define_FORTIFY_SOURCE
and use-fstack-protector
. If disabled, these are explicitly removed from CFLAGS for building GnuCOBOL.Simon
The NEWS
file from GnuCOBOL 3.1.2 contains the following information on hardening:
new configure option
--enable-hardening
to either enable GNU C's hardening options or leave as-is, or disable (which previous versions effectively did)