linux-ext4 - e2fsprogs/configure: misleading --enable-hardening docstring

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Message-ID: <87a8ed79g9.fsf@violet.siamics.net>
Date:   Sun, 09 Oct 2016 16:50:46 +0000
From:   Ivan Shmakov <ivan@...mics.net>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: e2fsprogs/configure: misleading --enable-hardening docstring 

	Please consider the patch MIMEd.

configure: fix misleading --enable-hardening docstring

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FSF associate member #7257  58F8 0F47 53F5 2EB2 F6A5  8916 3013 B6A0 230E 334A

--- configure.ac.~1~
+++ configure.ac	2016-10-09 16:39:08.120404438 +0000
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
 LDFLAGS_SHLIB=${LDFLAGS_SHLIB:-$LDFLAGS}
 LDFLAGS_STATIC=${LDFLAGS_STATIC:-$LDFLAGS}
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([hardening],
-[  --enable-hardening	  	  build for coverage testing using gcov],
+[  --enable-hardening	  build with security hardening flags],
 if test "$enableval" = "yes"
 then
 	HARDEN_CFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong"
--- configure.~1~
+++ configure	2016-10-09 16:39:08.124404250 +0000
@@ -1536,7 +1536,7 @@
   --enable-bsd-shlibs	  select BSD shared libraries
   --enable-profile	  build profiling libraries
   --enable-gcov	  	  build for coverage testing using gcov
-  --enable-hardening	  	  build for coverage testing using gcov
+  --enable-hardening	  build with security hardening flags
   --enable-jbd-debug  	  enable journal debugging
   --enable-blkid-debug    enable blkid debugging
   --disable-testio-debug  disable the use of the test I/O manager for debugging