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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2017-03-02 20:11:27 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2017-03-02 20:11:27 +0100
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Document and fix --enable-bind-now [BZ #21015]
(cherry picked from commit 2d6ab5df3b675e96ee587ae6a8c2ce004c6b1ba9)
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@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ will be used, and CFLAGS sets optimization options for the compiler.
      of routines called directly from assembler are excluded from this
      protection.
 
+'--enable-bind-now'
+     Disable lazy binding for installed shared objects.  This provides
+     additional security hardening because it enables full RELRO and a
+     read-only global offset table (GOT), at the cost of slightly
+     increased program load times.
+
 '--enable-pt_chown'
      The file 'pt_chown' is a helper binary for 'grantpt' (*note
      Pseudo-Terminals: Allocation.) that is installed setuid root to fix