Merge pull request #109 from High-Voltage-Engineering/epics-7.0.8.1

epics-base7: 7.0.8 -> 7.0.8.1
epics-extensions · Jul 18, 2024 · 7d9c467 · 7d9c467
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diff --git a/pkgs/default.nix b/pkgs/default.nix
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ in
       # EPICS base
 
       epics-base7 = callPackage ./epnix/epics-base {
-        version = "7.0.8";
-        hash = "sha256-GEkUwlOkRhQ6LskxHV+eDvBe9UUzF2YWWmgiyuiHypM=";
+        version = "7.0.8.1";
+        hash = "sha256-JDSMBwBLZj9aaxJHGg0QmZ1zYTSY8J7+ZGihAwEuz3w=";
       };
       epics-base3 = callPackage ./epnix/epics-base {
         version = "3.15.9";

diff --git a/pkgs/epnix/epics-base/default.nix b/pkgs/epnix/epics-base/default.nix
@@ -136,10 +136,14 @@ in
     # TODO: Some tests fail
     doCheck = false;
 
-    # _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 causes a buffer overflow in some cases:
+    # _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 detects a false-positive buffer overflow in some cases:
     #     *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
     #
-    # Fall back to _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
+    # EPICS automatically falls back to _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 since 7.0.8.1, but this doesn't work in
+    # the nix build.
+    # Being tracked in https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/issues/514, hopefully with a fix
+    # in EPICS 7.0.9
+
     hardeningDisable = ["fortify3"];
 
     meta = {