[LinuxBIOS] help from ubuntu and FC6 experts

[ron minnich]

On 1/23/07, Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> So you should just try it out somewhere in your build system --
> gcc -fno-stack-protector -S -xc - < /dev/null -o /dev/null    or
> something similar, grab the return code -- and that's all you need
> to do.

we'd always managed to avoid this kind of ugliness, but I guess we
have no choice.

What's going to get interesting is when the form that this test takes
gets broken by the various distros :-)

Some expert person want to try out a fix? If not, I guess I will.

ron

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