local.conf.sample.extended: Add some additional comments for security flags

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended b/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
index a2cb81bc1c..f85310e813 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
@@ -215,6 +215,14 @@
 # Remove the old image before the new one generated to save disk space
 #RM_OLD_IMAGE = "1"
 
+#
+# GCC/LD FLAGS to enable more secure code generation
+# 
+# By including the security_flags include file you enable flags
+# to the compiler and linker that cause them to generate more secure
+# code, this is enabled by default in the poky-lsb distro.
+# This does affect compile speed slightly.
+#
 # Use the following line to enable the security compiler and linker flags to your build
 #require conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
 
@@ -262,4 +270,3 @@ export FC = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}gfortran ${HOST_CC_ARCH}"
 #INITRAMFS_IMAGE = "core-image-minimal-initramfs"
 #INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE = "1"
 
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