Without the change `firebird` builds fail against `autconf-2.72` as:
checking for cc_r... gcc
./configure: line 5894: syntax error near unexpected token `;;'
./configure: line 5894: `printf "%s\n" "$as_me: WARNING: --with-system-editline specified, not found. Using bundled editline" >&2;} ;;'
Upstream switched to `cmake` for new releases. Let's pin older ones to
`autoconf-2.71`.
Hasn't been updated since 2017 and breaks when building with a more
recent gcc (gcc5 needs to be removed as it breaks with glibc 2.30). I
tried to update this to a more recent version which didn't work either,
but as this is pretty old I'm not even sure if this package is used atm.
* freetype: Remove unnecessary `--disable-static`.
The true-by-default `dontDisableStatic` already takes care of it.
Fixes freetype not being overridable to have static libs.
* treewide: Remove unnecessary `--disable-static`.
The true-by-default `dontDisableStatic` already takes care of it.
Fixes these packages not being overridable to have static libs.
The following parameters are now available:
* hardeningDisable
To disable specific hardening flags
* hardeningEnable
To enable specific hardening flags
Only the cc-wrapper supports this right now, but these may be reused by
other wrappers, builders or setup hooks.
cc-wrapper supports the following flags:
* fortify
* stackprotector
* pie (disabled by default)
* pic
* strictoverflow
* format
* relro
* bindnow
(My OCD kicked in today...)
Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.
I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.
I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).
Some specifics worth mentioning:
* cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
description.
* ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
"exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
at the end of description.
* nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
nixos.org).
* Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
either.
