Comments on: World Of Goo compiled on Ubuntu

By: kees

kees — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:49:26 +0000

doko, like me, works on both Ubuntu and Debian. Debian prefers not to have the hardening options in the compiler, so I created the wrapper script to solve it there. (See http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening)

There’s really no need to spread FUD about the Ubuntu/Debian relationship.

By: Paul Duncan

Paul Duncan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:32:45 +0000

Isn’t doko an Ubuntu person? Is he trying to sabotage Debian by not turning on hardening flags? Ubuntu sabotaging Debian is old news though I guess.

By: kees

kees — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:18:09 +0000

I have to disagree. In my opinion, Ubuntu’s compiler is better than any other distro’s compiler (discounting perhaps Hardened Gentoo, but that’s not strictly a “stock” distribution). Debian could turn on all the protections that are enabled in Ubuntu (it’s literally the same code base) with one easy change, but it would require convincing doko. :)

By: Debianero Rumbero

Debianero Rumbero — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:54:45 +0000

It’d be better if they were using Debian’s gcc ;)

By: dannybuntu

dannybuntu — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:34:53 +0000

Nice. I wish there was a screenie :)

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:29:57 +0000

Heh. I think you’d like 2 or so years late to the party.

Celetania was released today too (windows and linux support right away), and here it how the output from that looks like:

vadi@ubuntu:~/Games/celetania$ strings -a celetania.bin | grep -i gcc
libgcc_s.so.1
GCC: (GNU) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu1)
GCC: (GNU) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu1)
[...]

The archive games installer same:

vadi@ubuntu:~/Games/ArchiveGames$ strings -a archivegames | grep -i gcc
libgcc_s.so.1
GCC_3.0
GCC: (GNU) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu1)
GCC: (GNU) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu1)

Same for mystic mine:

vadi@ubuntu:~/Games/mysticmine_1.0$ strings -a mysticmine | grep -i gcc
GCC: (GNU) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu1)
GCC: (GNU) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu1)

… and so on. I just found Vendetta to be compiled on Gentoo and Savage 2 didn’t show.