package: hardening-wrapper
severity: important
For some reason in my i386 sid chroot I ended up with cc pointing at
gcc-4.2 but gcc-4.2 not installed, I dunno exactly how this happened but
given that this chroot is far from clean i'm not going to blame debian
for it (heck I may have even set the link manually at some point in the
past).
normally this would result in an obvious error but with hardening
wrapper installed a gcc-4.2 binary is provided regardless of whether
gcc-4.2 is installed. If gcc-4.2 is not installed the gcc-4.2 binary
provided by hardening-wrapper simply hangs. Combine this with some tools
not clearly indicating that they are running cc and you have a
mysterious hang.
I have confirmed that the hang also happens in a much cleaner chroot if
I try and run gcc-4.2 with hardening-wrapper installed but gcc-4.2 not
installed.
I question if hardening-wrapper should be installing wrappers for
compilers that aren't installed at all but if it does it should IMO at
least give a meaningfull error rather than hanging.
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