https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1822 This was originally added for ABI reasons in a case which barely works / doesn't work at all for glibc anyway, see https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/b73a3693e581583e9ec676f4396d0c3d173e2462. We want fortification and we definitely don't want it explicitly turned off. --- a/build/make/configure.sh +++ b/build/make/configure.sh @@ -1495,10 +1495,6 @@ EOF # shared objects enabled gcc && enabled pic && check_add_cflags -fPIC - # Work around longjmp interception on glibc >= 2.11, to improve binary - # compatibility. See http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=166 - enabled linux && check_add_cflags -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 - # Check for strip utility variant ${STRIP} -V 2>/dev/null | grep GNU >/dev/null && enable_feature gnu_strip