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-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/ccl/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/clean/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/dev86/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/edk2/default.nix8
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.5/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.6/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/gfortran-darwin.nix14
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gcl/default.nix21
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/6.10.4.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.4.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.5.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.6.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/gprolog/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/mkcl/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/picat/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/builder.sh29
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/default.nix12
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/qcmm.patch121
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/squeak/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.16.nix47
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.17.nix112
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.18.nix124
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/teyjus/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/tinycc/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/webdsl/default.nix24
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/wla-dx/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix37
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/2.44.1.nix10
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/R14.nix65
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/sec.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/lush/default.nix31
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/maude/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/patchsets.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/rand-egd.patch42
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/ruby22-rand-egd.patch42
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/supercollider/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/unicon-lang/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/wasm/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/CoinMP/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/a52dec/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/accelio/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/2.5.nix34
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/max-long.patch77
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/sizeof.patch56
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/audio/libbs2b/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/cgui/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/cloog/0.18.0.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix52
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix1
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix1
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix1
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.8.nix1
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/db/generic.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/faac/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/fox/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/fox/fox-1.6.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/fribidi/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/gdal-1_11.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix13
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/geoclue/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/4.1.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/libungif.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gmp/5.1.x.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gnu-efi/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gsm/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/legacy/gst-python/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/hspell/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/isl/0.14.1.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/itk/default.nix1
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/java/swt/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libdnet/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libdwg/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libelf/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libf2c/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libgeotiff/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libjson-rpc-cpp/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libmpc/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/librsync/0.9.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix1
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libvisual/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libyaml-cpp/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/motif/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/mp4v2/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/nvidia-texture-tools/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/6.5.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/pdf2xml/default.nix10
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/plib/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/portmidi/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/pupnp/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/qhull/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/qt-3/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/qtscriptgenerator/default.nix10
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/atlas/default.nix7
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/speechd/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/tidyp/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/default.nix14
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/gcc5.patch15
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/xmlrpc-c/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/pharo/vm/build-vm.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/python-modules/wxPython/3.0.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/analysis/cccc/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/analysis/flow/default.nix1
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/analysis/garcosim/tracefilesim/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/analysis/rr/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/boost-build/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/elfutils/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.1.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/omniorb/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix3
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/toluapp/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/web/wml/default.nix6
145 files changed, 537 insertions, 787 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ccl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ccl/default.nix
index e5e07705a18..ee0153c13b0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ccl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ccl/default.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ let
     /* TODO: there are also MacOS, FreeBSD and Windows versions */
     x86_64-linux = {
       arch = "linuxx86";
-      sha256 = "0d2vhp5n74yhwixnvlsnp7dzaf9aj6zd2894hr2728djyd8x9fx6";
+      sha256 = "07cny2qkzc624bzpdsy4iakcln0p7v5rhf8bv0vnh6rhpvnahrnq";
       runtime = "lx86cl64";
       kernel = "linuxx8664";
     };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/clean/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/clean/default.nix
index 7f3e679e847..3fed2289f95 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/clean/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/clean/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     })
     else throw "Architecture not supported";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" "pic" ];
+
   # clm uses timestamps of dcl, icl, abc and o files to decide what must be rebuild
   # and for chroot builds all of the library files will have equal timestamps.  This
   # makes clm try to rebuild the library modules (and fail due to absence of write permission
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/dev86/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/dev86/default.nix
index d17a5775db2..514075651e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/dev86/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/dev86/default.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "154dyr2ph4n0kwi8yx0n78j128kw29rk9r9f7s2gddzrdl712jr3";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   makeFlags = "PREFIX=$(out)";
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix
index 76ee5219a90..61737004e6f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   inherit (s) name version;
   inherit buildInputs propagatedBuildInputs;
+
   src = fetchurl {
     inherit (s) url sha256;
   };
+
   configureFlags = [
     "--enable-threads"
     "--with-gmp-prefix=${gmp.dev}"
@@ -35,12 +37,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     (stdenv.lib.optional (! noUnicode)
       "--enable-unicode")
     ;
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   postInstall = ''
     sed -e 's/@[-a-zA-Z_]*@//g' -i $out/bin/ecl-config
     wrapProgram "$out/bin/ecl" \
       --prefix NIX_LDFLAGS ' ' "-L${gmp.lib or gmp.out or gmp}/lib" \
       --prefix NIX_LDFLAGS ' ' "-L${libffi.lib or libffi.out or libffi}/lib"
   '';
+
   meta = {
     inherit (s) version;
     description = "Lisp implementation aiming to be small, fast and easy to embed";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/edk2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/edk2/default.nix
index 99b652e0a5f..4ddf580fae5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/edk2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/edk2/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ else
 
 edk2 = stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "edk2-2014-12-10";
-  
+
   src = fetchgit {
     url = git://github.com/tianocore/edk2;
     rev = "684a565a04";
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ edk2 = stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ libuuid pythonFull ];
 
-  buildPhase = ''
-    make -C BaseTools
-  '';
+  makeFlags = "-C BaseTools";
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" "fortify" ];
 
   installPhase = ''
     mkdir -vp $out
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.5/default.nix
index 69ff590a631..7a97b689714 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.5/default.nix
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
     inherit langC langCC langFortran langJava langAda;
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ] ++ optional (name != "gnat") "all";
+
   patches =
     [ ]
     ++ optional (cross != null) ../libstdc++-target.patch
@@ -207,7 +209,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ texinfo which gettext ]
     ++ optional (perl != null) perl;
-    
+
   buildInputs = [ gmp mpfr libmpc libelf ]
     ++ (optional (ppl != null) ppl)
     ++ (optional (cloogppl != null) cloogppl)
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.6/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.6/default.nix
index fad198b1f5c..f98fde69fc4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.6/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.6/default.nix
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
 
   inherit patches enableMultilib;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   libc_dev = stdenv.cc.libc_dev;
 
   postPatch =
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix
index 42fd4bec2eb..d15a9a90b79 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
 
   inherit patches;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   outputs = [ "out" "lib" "doc" ];
   setOutputFlags = false;
   NIX_NO_SELF_RPATH = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
index 475349ed4ba..e0a8b98c21f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
@@ -218,6 +218,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
 
   inherit patches;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   outputs = if langJava || langGo then ["out" "man" "info"]
     else [ "out" "lib" "man" "info" ];
   setOutputFlags = false;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix
index 4802c3fe278..89a452166a1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix
@@ -216,6 +216,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
     inherit sha256;
   };
 
+  # FIXME stackprotector needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" "format" ];
+
   inherit patches;
 
   outputs = [ "out" "lib" "man" "info" ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix
index e87554c25ab..f925499ef0b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
 
   libc_dev = stdenv.cc.libc_dev;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   postPatch =
     if (stdenv.isGNU
         || (libcCross != null                  # e.g., building `gcc.crossDrv'
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/gfortran-darwin.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/gfortran-darwin.nix
index 7fa58a053b4..48caeea5f1f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/gfortran-darwin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/gfortran-darwin.nix
@@ -7,12 +7,18 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "gfortran-${version}";
   version = "5.1.0";
-  buildInputs = [gmp mpfr libmpc isl_0_14 cloog zlib];
+
+  buildInputs = [ gmp mpfr libmpc isl_0_14 cloog zlib ];
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/gcc/gcc-${version}/gcc-${version}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "1bd5vj4px3s8nlakbgrh38ynxq4s654m6nxz7lrj03mvkkwgvnmp";
   };
+
   patches = ./gfortran-darwin.patch;
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   configureFlags = ''
     --disable-bootstrap
     --disable-cloog-version-check
@@ -28,11 +34,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     --with-native-system-header-dir=${Libsystem}/include
     --with-system-zlib
   '';
+
   postConfigure = ''
     export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/`uname -m`-apple-darwin`uname -r`/libgcc
   '';
-  makeFlags = ["CC=clang"];
+
+  makeFlags = [ "CC=clang" ];
+
   passthru.cc = stdenv.cc.cc;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "GNU Fortran compiler, part of the GNU Compiler Collection";
     homepage    = "https://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcl/default.nix
index cf5b862646e..0e4d5bed051 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcl/default.nix
@@ -32,24 +32,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--enable-ansi"
   ];
 
-  # Upstream bug submitted - http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?30371
-  # $TMPDIR must have no extension
-  # setVars = a.noDepEntry ''
-  #   export TMPDIR="''${TMPDIR:-''${TMP:-''${TEMP}}}/tmp-for-gcl"
-  #   mkdir -p "$TMPDIR"
-  # '';
-
-  preBuild = ''
-    # sed -re "s@/bin/cat@$(which cat)@g" -i configure */configure
-    # sed -re "s@if test -d /proc/self @if false @" -i configure
-    # sed -re 's^([ \t])cpp ^\1cpp -I${stdenv.cc.cc}/include -I${stdenv.cc.libc}/include ^g' -i makefile
-
-    export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="$NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE -fgnu89-inline"
-  '';
-
-  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
-  # phaseNames = ["setVars" "doUnpack" "preBuild"
-  #   "doConfigure" "doMakeInstall"];
+  hardeningDisable = [ "pic" "bindnow" ];
+
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-fgnu89-inline";
 
   meta = {
     description = "GNU Common Lisp compiler working via GCC";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/6.10.4.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/6.10.4.nix
index d8d25ef8082..9a816797291 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/6.10.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/6.10.4.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ghc libedit perl gmp];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   configureFlags = [
     "--with-gmp-libraries=${gmp.out}/lib"
     "--with-gmp-includes=${gmp.dev}/include"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.4.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.4.nix
index 17c3cc05217..5b6af31d684 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.4.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ pcre ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin Security;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
+
   # I'm not sure what go wants from its 'src', but the go installation manual
   # describes an installation keeping the src.
   preUnpack = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.5.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.5.nix
index b2eb4b1f246..e6060f3ecec 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.5.nix
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     Security Foundation
   ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
+
   # I'm not sure what go wants from its 'src', but the go installation manual
   # describes an installation keeping the src.
   preUnpack = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.6.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.6.nix
index be6f1a5402d..71f427d4664 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.6.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/go/1.6.nix
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     Security Foundation
   ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
+
   # I'm not sure what go wants from its 'src', but the go installation manual
   # describes an installation keeping the src.
   preUnpack = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gprolog/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gprolog/default.nix
index 283bfedcf54..1465206484d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gprolog/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gprolog/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "13miyas47bmijmadm68cbvb21n4s156gjafz7kfx9brk9djfkh0q";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isi686 "pic";
+
   patchPhase = ''
     sed -i -e "s|/tmp/make.log|$TMPDIR/make.log|g" src/Pl2Wam/check_boot
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/mkcl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/mkcl/default.nix
index 4d53ba20d08..daebf3b284e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/mkcl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/mkcl/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ gmp ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   configureFlags = [
     "GMP_CFLAGS=-I${gmp.dev}/include"
     "GMP_LDFLAGS=-L${gmp.out}/lib"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/picat/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/picat/default.nix
index 7f2f6158dd8..e86f3869e49 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/picat/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/picat/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
          else if stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux" then "linux64"
          else throw "Unsupported system";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   buildPhase = ''
     cd emu
     make -f Makefile.picat.$ARCH
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index acdfbaa08dc..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-configureFlags="--with-lua=$lua"
-
-MKFLAGS="-w$lua/include/lauxlib.h,$lua/include/luadebug.h,$lua/include/lua.h,$lua/include/lualib.h"
-
-buildPhase() {
-  mk timestamps
-  mk $MKFLAGS all.opt
-}
-
-installPhase() {
-  mk $MKFLAGS install.opt
-
-  for file in $out/bin/*.opt; do
-    mv $file ${file%.opt}
-  done
-
-  find $out/man -type f -exec gzip -9n {} \;
-
-  find $out -name \*.a -exec echo stripping {} \; \
-            -exec strip -S {} \;
-
-  patchELF $out
-}
-
-checkPhase="mk $MKFLAGS test.opt"
-
-genericBuild
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a221ae29f04..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, mk, ocaml, noweb, lua, groff }: 
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "qcmm-2006-01-31";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://tarballs.nixos.org/qc--20060131.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "9097830775bcf22c9bad54f389f5db23";
-  };
-  buildInputs = [ mk ocaml noweb groff ];
-  patches = [ ./qcmm.patch ];
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
-  inherit lua;
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/qcmm.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/qcmm.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 414f18a9f73..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/qcmm/qcmm.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-diff -ur qc--20060131.orig/configure qc--20060131/configure
---- qc--20060131.orig/configure	2005-11-05 22:15:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ qc--20060131/configure	2006-02-02 14:29:07.000000000 +0100
-@@ -93,7 +93,22 @@
- # for file in dirs and return, full path, if found, and "" otherwise.
- #
- 
--sub search { search_with( sub($) { return (-f shift) }, @_) }
-+sub combine {
-+    my $base = shift;
-+    my $file = shift;
-+    return ("$base/$file")
-+};
-+
-+sub search { search_with( sub($) { return (-f shift) }, \&combine, @_) }
-+
-+sub search_suffix {
-+    my $f = sub($) {
-+        my $suffix = shift;
-+        my $base   = shift;
-+        return ($base . $suffix);
-+    };
-+    search_with(sub($) { return (-f shift) }, $f, @_)
-+}
- 
- sub searchx {
-     my $f = sub($) {
-@@ -105,16 +120,17 @@
-         }
-         return (1==2); # how do you write false in perl?
-     };
--    search_with($f, @_)
-+    search_with($f, \&combine, @_)
- }
- 
- sub search_with {
-     my $p    = shift;
-+    my $com  = shift;
-     my $file = shift;
-    
--    printf(LOG "searching for %-20s", $file); 
-+    printf(LOG "searching for %-20s ", $file); 
-     while ($f = shift (@_)) {
--        my $x = "$f/$file";
-+        my $x = &$com($f, $file);
-         if (&$p($x)) { 
-             print LOG "found $x\n"; 
-             return $x 
-@@ -124,6 +140,20 @@
-     return "";
- }
- 
-+#configure lua based on some known installation prefix
-+sub config_lua {
-+  my $base = shift;
-+  @libsuffix    = ( ".so", "40.so", ".a", "40.a" );
-+
-+  $x{lua_h}       = "$base/include/lua.h";
-+  $x{lualib_h}    = "$base/include/lualib.h";
-+  $x{liblua}      = search_suffix("$base/lib/liblua", @libsuffix);
-+  $x{liblualib}   = search_suffix("$base/lib/liblualib", @libsuffix);
-+  $x{lua_inc}     = "-I$base/include";
-+  $x{lua_lib}     = "-L$base/lib/";
-+  $x{lua_libs}    = "-llua -llualib";
-+}
-+
- 
- #
- # compile and run a small C program to find out about architecture
-@@ -183,6 +213,8 @@
-     
-     ./configure [options]
- 
-+    --with-lua=/lua/path    lua is installed in /lua/path the default
-+                            is to search for standard locations
-     --prefix=/usr/local     install into the /usr/local hierarchy which
-                             is also the default
-     -h, --help              this summary
-@@ -224,15 +256,15 @@
- # We start from here with reading the command line
- # ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
- 
-+open (LOG, ">$configure_log") || die "cannot write configure.log: $!";
-+
- foreach (@ARGV) {
-     if       (/^--?prefix=(.*)$/)             { $x{prefix}=$1     }
-     elsif    (/^--?h(elp?)$/)                 { usage(); exit 0   }  
-+    elsif    (/^--?with-lua=(.*)$/)           { config_lua($1)    }
-     else     { usage(); exit 1 }
- }
- 
--
--open (LOG, ">$configure_log") || die "cannot write configure.log: $!";
--
- # check for various executables and versions. Only update variable if
- # it is not already set.
- #
-diff -ur qc--20060131.orig/doc/mkfile qc--20060131/doc/mkfile
---- qc--20060131.orig/doc/mkfile	2005-11-07 01:41:21.000000000 +0100
-+++ qc--20060131/doc/mkfile	2006-02-02 00:38:00.000000000 +0100
-@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
- # and accessible from Lua as This.manual.
- 
- qc--.man:D:     qc--.1
--	GROFF_NO_SGR=1 nroff -man -Tascii qc--.1 | ul -t dump > $target                
-+	GROFF_NO_SGR=1 nroff -man -Tascii qc--.1 > $target                
- 
- release.tex:D: release.nw
- 	noweave -delay $prereq > $target
-diff -ur qc--20060131.orig/mkfile qc--20060131/mkfile
---- qc--20060131.orig/mkfile	2005-07-01 22:29:52.000000000 +0200
-+++ qc--20060131/mkfile	2006-02-02 19:15:53.000000000 +0100
-@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
- 	cd test2 && NPROC=1 mk $MKFLAGS all
- 
- test.opt:V:         all.opt
--	cd test2 && NPROC=1 mk QC=../bin/qc--.opt $MKFLAGS all
-+	cd test2 && NPROC=1 mk $MKFLAGS QC=../bin/qc--.opt all
- 
- coverage: test2/ocamlprof.dump	
- 	rm -f $target
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/squeak/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/squeak/default.nix
index 8aa980b72e6..69529ab762b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/squeak/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/squeak/default.nix
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Smalltalk programming language and environment";
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.16.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.16.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 4cfa2c79892..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.16.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, aterm, pkgconfig, getopt}:
-
-rec {
-
-  inherit aterm;
-  
-
-  sdf = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "sdf2-bundle-2.3.3";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = ftp://ftp.stratego-language.org/pub/stratego/sdf2/sdf2-bundle-2.3.3/sdf2-bundle-2.3.3.tar.gz;
-      md5 = "62ecabe5fbb8bbe043ee18470107ef88";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm getopt];
-
-    preConfigure = ''
-      substituteInPlace pgen/src/sdf2table.src \
-        --replace getopt ${getopt}/bin/getopt
-    '';
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://www.program-transformation.org/Sdf/SdfBundle;
-      meta = "Tools for the SDF2 Syntax Definition Formalism, including the `pgen' parser generator and `sglr' parser";
-    };
-  };
-
-  
-  strategoxt = stdenv.mkDerivation {
-    name = "strategoxt-0.16";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/StrategoXT/strategoxt-0.16/strategoxt-0.16.tar.gz;
-      md5 = "8b8eabbd785faa84ec20134b63d4829e";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf getopt];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/;
-      meta = "A language and toolset for program transformation";
-    };
-  };
-  
-    
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.17.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.17.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index d621cbf5f0c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.17.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, aterm, pkgconfig, getopt, jdk, readline, ncurses}:
-
-rec {
-
-  inherit aterm;
-
-  
-  sdf = stdenv.mkDerivation ( rec {
-    name = "sdf2-bundle-2.4";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/StrategoXT/strategoxt-0.17/sdf2-bundle-2.4.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "2ec83151173378f48a3326e905d11049d094bf9f0c7cff781bc2fce0f3afbc11";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm];
-
-    preConfigure = ''
-      substituteInPlace pgen/src/sdf2table.src \
-        --replace getopt ${getopt}/bin/getopt
-    '';
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://www.program-transformation.org/Sdf/SdfBundle;
-      meta = "Tools for the SDF2 Syntax Definition Formalism, including the `pgen' parser generator and `sglr' parser";
-    };
-  } // ( if stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin" then { CFLAGS = "-O2 -Wl,--stack=0x2300000"; } else {} ) ) ;
-
-  
-  strategoxt = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "strategoxt-0.17";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/StrategoXT/strategoxt-0.17/strategoxt-0.17.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "70355576c3ce3c5a8a26435705a49cf7d13e91eada974a654534d63e0d34acdb";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf getopt];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/;
-      meta = "A language and toolset for program transformation";
-    };
-  };
-
-  strategoShell = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "stratego-shell-0.7";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/StrategoXT/strategoxt-0.17/stratego-shell-0.7.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0q21vks9gaw9v4rxz90wb0pxzb19l7gwi4nbjvk4zb1imdk7znck";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt getopt readline ncurses];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/;
-      meta = "A language and toolset for program transformation";
-    };
-  };
-
-
-  javafront = stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
-    name = "java-front-0.9";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/java-front/java-front-0.9/java-front-0.9.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "96f40bf31486d3ced3ecebdcc0067e83ce6acbdbe57e3c847136ac3d7b62cc3c";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt];
-
-    # !!! The explicit `--with-strategoxt' is necessary; otherwise we
-    # get an XTC registration that refers to "/share/strategoxt/XTC".
-    configureFlags = "--enable-xtc --with-strategoxt=${strategoxt}";
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/Stratego/JavaFront;
-      meta = "Tools for generating or transforming Java code";
-    };
-  } // ( if stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin" then { CFLAGS = "-O2"; } else {} ) ) ;
-
-
-  dryad = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "dryad-0.2pre18355";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "http://releases.strategoxt.org/dryad/${name}-zbqfh1rm/dryad-0.2pre18355.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "2c27b7f82f87ffc27b75969acc365560651275d348b3b5cbb530276d20ae83ab";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [jdk pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt javafront];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/Stratego/TheDryad;
-      meta = "A collection of tools for developing transformation systems for Java source and bytecode";
-    };
-  };
-
-
-  /*
-  libraries = ... {
-    configureFlags =
-      if stdenv ? isMinGW && stdenv.isMinGW then "--with-std=C99" else "";
-
-    # avoids loads of warnings about too big description fields because of a broken debug format
-    CFLAGS =
-      if stdenv ? isMinGW && stdenv.isMinGW then "-O2" else null;
-  };
-  */
-  
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.18.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.18.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 611586c5d93..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.18.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, aterm, pkgconfig, getopt, jdk, makeStaticBinaries, readline, ncurses}:
-
-rec {
-
-  inherit aterm;
-
-  sdf = stdenv.mkDerivation ( rec {
-    name = "sdf2-bundle-2.4";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/StrategoXT/strategoxt-0.17/sdf2-bundle-2.4.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "2ec83151173378f48a3326e905d11049d094bf9f0c7cff781bc2fce0f3afbc11";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm];
-
-    preConfigure = ''
-      substituteInPlace pgen/src/sdf2table.src \
-        --replace getopt ${getopt}/bin/getopt
-    '';
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://www.program-transformation.org/Sdf/SdfBundle;
-      meta = "Tools for the SDF2 Syntax Definition Formalism, including the `pgen' parser generator and `sglr' parser";
-    };
-  } // ( if stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin" then { CFLAGS = "-O2 -Wl,--stack=0x2300000"; } else {} ) ) ;
-
-  
-  strategoxt = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "strategoxt-1.8pre24429";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2175544/download/1/strategoxt-1.8pre24429.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "124f1d61a440b94c38b731c2e7015340dbbc1deb6d442b31dbecb46b0a00fa83";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf getopt];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/;
-      meta = "A language and toolset for program transformation";
-    };
-  };
-
-  strategoShell = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "stratego-shell-0.7";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/StrategoXT/strategoxt-0.17/stratego-shell-0.7.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0q21vks9gaw9v4rxz90wb0pxzb19l7gwi4nbjvk4zb1imdk7znck";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt getopt readline ncurses];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/;
-      meta = "A language and toolset for program transformation";
-      broken = true;
-    };
-  };
-
-  javafront = stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
-    name = "java-front-0.9.1pre20122";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "http://hydra.nixos.org/build/766286/download/1/java-front-0.9.1pre20122.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "ef85d3af962fcd54e028ea501e64220b86af335a49143f2819bd3f4789bef7e6";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt];
-
-    # !!! The explicit `--with-strategoxt' is necessary; otherwise we
-    # get an XTC registration that refers to "/share/strategoxt/XTC".
-    configureFlags = "--enable-xtc --with-strategoxt=${strategoxt}";
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/Stratego/JavaFront;
-      meta = "Tools for generating or transforming Java code";
-    };
-  } // ( if stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin" then { CFLAGS = "-O2"; } else {} ) ) ;
-
-
-  aspectjfront = stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
-    name = "aspectj-front-0.2pre20035";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "http://hydra.nixos.org/build/175690/download/1/aspectj-front-0.2pre20035.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "48f6cda6f9f19436e9553e8d27e6bb42500d08370332e3ad214affb49851e58e";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt javafront];
-
-  } // ( if stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin" then { CFLAGS = "-O2"; } else {} ) ) ;
-
-  dryad = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "dryad-0.2pre18355";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "http://releases.strategoxt.org/dryad/${name}-zbqfh1rm/dryad-0.2pre18355.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "2c27b7f82f87ffc27b75969acc365560651275d348b3b5cbb530276d20ae83ab";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [jdk pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt javafront];
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/Stratego/TheDryad;
-      meta = "A collection of tools for developing transformation systems for Java source and bytecode";
-      broken = true;
-    };
-  };
-
-
-  /*
-  libraries = ... {
-    configureFlags =
-      if stdenv ? isMinGW && stdenv.isMinGW then "--with-std=C99" else "";
-
-    # avoids loads of warnings about too big description fields because of a broken debug format
-    CFLAGS =
-      if stdenv ? isMinGW && stdenv.isMinGW then "-O2" else null;
-  };
-  */
-  
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix
index ae3e162910c..c3e77152b3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildInputs = [ gmp readline openssl libjpeg unixODBC libXinerama
     libXft libXpm libSM libXt zlib freetype pkgconfig fontconfig ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   configureFlags = "--with-world --enable-gmp --enable-shared";
 
   buildFlags = "world";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/teyjus/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/teyjus/default.nix
index b16b32a6a06..301915b7a26 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/teyjus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/teyjus/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ omake ocaml flex bison ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   buildPhase = "omake all";
 
   checkPhase = "omake check";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/tinycc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/tinycc/default.nix
index de8044386e7..87e09e3231f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/tinycc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/tinycc/default.nix
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ perl texinfo ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace "texi2pod.pl" \
       --replace "/usr/bin/perl" "${perl}/bin/perl"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/webdsl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/webdsl/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a0122319aed..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/webdsl/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, strategoPackages }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "webdsl-9.7pre4168";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://hydra.nixos.org/build/654196/download/1/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "08bec3ba02254ec7474ce70206b7be4390fe07456cfc57d927d96a21dd6dcb33";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs =
-    [ pkgconfig strategoPackages.aterm strategoPackages.sdf
-      strategoPackages.strategoxt strategoPackages.javafront
-    ];
-
-  # This corrected a failing build on at least one 64 bit Linux system.
-  # See the comment about this here: http://webdsl.org/selectpage/Download/WebDSLOnLinux
-  preBuild = (if stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux" then "ulimit -s unlimited" else "");
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://webdsl.org/;
-    description = "A domain-specific language for developing dynamic web applications with a rich data model";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/wla-dx/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/wla-dx/default.nix
index f01d93cafd6..13a48aaaa30 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/wla-dx/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/wla-dx/default.nix
@@ -2,16 +2,21 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "wla-dx-git-2016-02-27";
+
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "vhelin";
     repo = "wla-dx";
     rev = "8189fe8d5620584ea16563875ff3c5430527c86a";
     sha256 = "02zgkcyfx7y8j6jvyi12lm29fydnd7m3rxv6g2psv23fyzmpkkir";
   };
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   installPhase = ''
     mkdir -p $out/bin
     install binaries/* $out/bin
   '';
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 1cd4e15b4e9..d2339c7e297 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ self: super: {
   nanospec = dontCheck super.nanospec;
   options = dontCheck super.options;
   statistics = dontCheck super.statistics;
-  c2hs = if pkgs.stdenv.isDarwin then dontCheck super.c2hs else super.c2hs;
+  c2hs = dontCheck super.c2hs;
+
+  # fix errors caused by hardening flags
+  epanet-haskell = super.epanet-haskell.overrideDerivation (drv: {
+    hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+  });
 
   # Use the default version of mysql to build this package (which is actually mariadb).
   mysql = super.mysql.override { mysql = pkgs.mysql.lib; };
@@ -198,10 +203,24 @@ self: super: {
   jwt = dontCheck super.jwt;
 
   # https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/issues/136 and https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/issues/216
-  gio = addPkgconfigDepend (addBuildTool super.gio self.gtk2hs-buildtools) pkgs.glib;
-  glib = addPkgconfigDepend (addBuildTool super.glib self.gtk2hs-buildtools) pkgs.glib;
-  gtk3 = super.gtk3.override { inherit (pkgs) gtk3; };
-  gtk = addPkgconfigDepend (addBuildTool super.gtk self.gtk2hs-buildtools) pkgs.gtk;
+  gio = pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation (addPkgconfigDepend (
+    addBuildTool super.gio self.gtk2hs-buildtools
+  ) pkgs.glib) (drv: {
+    hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+  });
+  glib = pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation (addPkgconfigDepend (
+    addBuildTool super.glib self.gtk2hs-buildtools
+  ) pkgs.glib) (drv: {
+    hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+  });
+  gtk3 = pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation (super.gtk3.override { inherit (pkgs) gtk3; }) (drv: {
+    hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+  });
+  gtk = pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation (addPkgconfigDepend (
+    addBuildTool super.gtk self.gtk2hs-buildtools
+  ) pkgs.gtk) (drv: {
+    hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+  });
   gtksourceview2 = (addPkgconfigDepend super.gtksourceview2 pkgs.gtk2).override { inherit (pkgs.gnome2) gtksourceview; };
   gtksourceview3 = super.gtksourceview3.override { inherit (pkgs.gnome3) gtksourceview; };
 
@@ -380,7 +399,9 @@ self: super: {
   lensref = dontCheck super.lensref;
   liquidhaskell = dontCheck super.liquidhaskell;
   lucid = dontCheck super.lucid; #https://github.com/chrisdone/lucid/issues/25
-  lvmrun = dontCheck super.lvmrun;
+  lvmrun = pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation (dontCheck super.lvmrun) (drv: {
+    hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+  });
   memcache = dontCheck super.memcache;
   milena = dontCheck super.milena;
   nats-queue = dontCheck super.nats-queue;
@@ -925,7 +946,9 @@ self: super: {
 
   # Tools that use gtk2hs-buildtools now depend on them in a custom-setup stanza
   cairo = addBuildTool super.cairo self.gtk2hs-buildtools;
-  pango = addBuildTool super.pango self.gtk2hs-buildtools;
+  pango = (addBuildTool super.pango self.gtk2hs-buildtools).overrideDerivation (drv: {
+    hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+  });
 
   # Fix tests which would otherwise fail with "Couldn't launch intero process."
   intero = overrideCabal super.intero (drv: {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/2.44.1.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/2.44.1.nix
index 682978a5ac8..b7b329ea956 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/2.44.1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/2.44.1.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, libsigsegv, gettext, ncurses, readline, libX11
 , libXau, libXt, pcre, zlib, libXpm, xproto, libXext, xextproto
 , libffi, libffcall, coreutils }:
-        
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   v = "2.44.1";
   name = "clisp-${v}";
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/clisp/release/${v}/${name}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "0rkp6j6rih4s5d9acifh7pi4b9xfgcspif512l269dqy9qgyy4j1";
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       zlib libXpm xproto libXext xextproto libffi libffcall ];
 
   patches = [ ./bits_ipctypes_to_sys_ipc.patch ]; # from Gentoo
-      
+
   # First, replace port 9090 (rather low, can be used)
   # with 64237 (much higher, IANA private area, not
   # anything rememberable).
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
     substituteInPlace modules/bindings/glibc/linux.lisp --replace "(def-c-type __swblk_t)" ""
   '';
-  
+
   configureFlags =
     ''
       --with-readline builddir --with-dynamic-ffi
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-O0 ${stdenv.lib.optionalString (!stdenv.is64bit) "-falign-functions=4"}";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # TODO : make mod-check fails
   doCheck = false;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/R14.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/R14.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cf4355a38e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/R14.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, gnum4, ncurses, openssl
+, makeWrapper, gnused, gawk }:
+
+let version = "14B04"; in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "erlang-" + version;
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0vlvjlg8vzcy6inb4vj00bnj0aarvpchzxwhmi492nv31s8kb6q9";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ perl gnum4 ncurses openssl makeWrapper ];
+
+  patchPhase = '' sed -i "s@/bin/rm@rm@" lib/odbc/configure erts/configure '';
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    export HOME=$PWD/../
+    sed -e s@/bin/pwd@pwd@g -i otp_build
+  '';
+
+  configureFlags = "--with-ssl=${openssl}";
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
+  postInstall = let
+    manpages = fetchurl {
+      url = "http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_R${version}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1nh7l7wilyyaxvlwkjxgm3cq7wpd90sk6vxhgpvg7hwai8g52545";
+    };
+  in ''
+    tar xf "${manpages}" -C "$out/lib/erlang"
+    for i in "$out"/lib/erlang/man/man[0-9]/*.[0-9]; do
+      prefix="''${i%/*}"
+      ensureDir "$out/share/man/''${prefix##*/}"
+      ln -s "$i" "$out/share/man/''${prefix##*/}/''${i##*/}erl"
+    done
+  '';
+
+  # Some erlang bin/ scripts run sed and awk
+  postFixup = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/lib/erlang/bin/erl --prefix PATH ":" "${gnused}/bin/"
+    wrapProgram $out/lib/erlang/bin/start_erl --prefix PATH ":" "${gnused}/bin/:${gawk}/bin"
+  '';
+
+  setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://www.erlang.org/";
+    description = "Programming language used for massively scalable soft real-time systems";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable
+      soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability.
+      Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer
+      telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has
+      built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault
+      tolerance.
+    '';
+
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix
index 2d216389bd7..d6f385f5b50 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildFlags = "all so sobin";
   installFlags = "INSTALL_ROOT=$$out";
 
+  hardeningDisable = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isi686 "stackprotector";
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.lua.org";
     description = "Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/sec.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/sec.nix
index a4d14f7e9d7..478f65fd828 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/sec.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/sec.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ lua5 openssl ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isi686 "stackprotector";
+
   preBuild = ''
     makeFlagsArray=(
       linux
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lush/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lush/default.nix
index 63cf85bc506..dcfdc11c7a9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lush/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lush/default.nix
@@ -1,32 +1,29 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, xproto, indent, readline, gsl, freeglut, mesa, SDL
 , blas, binutils, intltool, gettext, zlib}:
-let
-  s = # Generated upstream information
-  rec {
-    baseName="lush";
-    version="2.0.1";
-    name="${baseName}-${version}";
-    hash="02pkfn3nqdkm9fm44911dbcz0v3r0l53vygj8xigl6id5g3iwi4k";
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  baseName = "lush";
+  version = "2.0.1";
+  name = "${baseName}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
     url="mirror://sourceforge/project/lush/lush2/lush-2.0.1.tar.gz";
     sha256="02pkfn3nqdkm9fm44911dbcz0v3r0l53vygj8xigl6id5g3iwi4k";
   };
+
   buildInputs = [
     libX11 xproto indent readline gsl freeglut mesa SDL blas binutils
     intltool gettext zlib
   ];
-in
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  inherit (s) name version;
-  inherit buildInputs;
-  src = fetchurl {
-    inherit (s) url sha256;
-  };
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "pic" ];
+
   NIX_LDFLAGS=" -lz ";
+
   meta = {
-    inherit (s) version;
-    description = ''Lisp Universal SHell'';
+    description = "Lisp Universal SHell";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus ;
-    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin];
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin ];
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/maude/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/maude/default.nix
index 737ded6e1bb..4493b2c7b85 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/maude/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/maude/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [flex bison ncurses buddy tecla gmpxx libsigsegv makeWrapper];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   preConfigure = ''
     configureFlagsArray=(
       --datadir=$out/share/maude
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
index 99860c30468..04d6c706b46 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ let
 
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+    # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+    hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
     preConfigure =
       ''
         configureFlags="$configureFlags -Dprefix=$out -Dman1dir=$out/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=$out/share/man/man3"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix
index df634147f58..bffd4ce38a2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ let
         calendarSupport = config.php.calendar or true;
       };
 
+      hardeningDisable = [ "bindnow" ];
+
       configurePhase = ''
         # Don't record the configure flags since this causes unnecessary
         # runtime dependencies.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/default.nix
index 8db9dd4eaf9..446013faafd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/default.nix
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ let
       then version
       else versionNoPatch;
     tag = "v" + stdenv.lib.replaceChars ["." "p" "-"] ["_" "_" ""] fullVersionName;
+    isRuby20 = majorVersion == "2" && minorVersion == "0";
     isRuby21 = majorVersion == "2" && minorVersion == "1";
     baseruby = self.override { useRailsExpress = false; };
     self = lib.makeOverridable (
@@ -81,6 +82,8 @@ let
 
         enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+        hardeningDisable = lib.optional isRuby20 [ "format" ];
+
         patches =
           [ ./gem_hook.patch ] ++
           (import ./patchsets.nix {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/patchsets.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/patchsets.nix
index 0e81db4e047..bf848aba582 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/patchsets.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/patchsets.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 rec {
   "1.9.3" = [
     ./ssl_v3.patch
+    ./rand-egd.patch
     ./ruby19-parallel-install.patch
     ./bitperfect-rdoc.patch
   ] ++ ops useRailsExpress [
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ rec {
   ];
   "2.0.0" = [
     ./ssl_v3.patch
+    ./rand-egd.patch
   ] ++ ops useRailsExpress [
     "${patchSet}/patches/ruby/2.0.0/p${patchLevel}/railsexpress/01-zero-broken-tests.patch"
     "${patchSet}/patches/ruby/2.0.0/p${patchLevel}/railsexpress/02-railsexpress-gc.patch"
@@ -36,6 +38,7 @@ rec {
   ];
   "2.1.7" = [
     ./ssl_v3.patch
+    ./rand-egd.patch
   ] ++ ops useRailsExpress [
     "${patchSet}/patches/ruby/2.1.7/railsexpress/01-zero-broken-tests.patch"
     "${patchSet}/patches/ruby/2.1.7/railsexpress/02-improve-gc-stats.patch"
@@ -49,6 +52,7 @@ rec {
   ];
   "2.2.3" = [
     ./ssl_v3.patch
+    ./ruby22-rand-egd.patch
   ] ++ ops useRailsExpress [
     "${patchSet}/patches/ruby/2.2.3/railsexpress/01-zero-broken-tests.patch"
     "${patchSet}/patches/ruby/2.2.3/railsexpress/02-improve-gc-stats.patch"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/rand-egd.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/rand-egd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e4f6452000c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/rand-egd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+diff --git a/ext/openssl/extconf.rb b/ext/openssl/extconf.rb
+index e272cba..3a1fa71 100644
+--- a/ext/openssl/extconf.rb
++++ b/ext/openssl/extconf.rb
+@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
+ have_func("PEM_def_callback")
+ have_func("PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC")
+ have_func("PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1")
++have_func("RAND_egd")
+ have_func("X509V3_set_nconf")
+ have_func("X509V3_EXT_nconf_nid")
+ have_func("X509_CRL_add0_revoked")
+diff --git a/ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c b/ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c
+index 29cbf8c..27466fe 100644
+--- a/ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c
++++ b/ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c
+@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ ossl_rand_pseudo_bytes(VALUE self, VALUE len)
+     return str;
+ }
+ 
++#ifdef HAVE_RAND_EGD
+ /*
+  *  call-seq:
+  *     egd(filename) -> true
+@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ ossl_rand_egd_bytes(VALUE self, VALUE filename, VALUE len)
+     }
+     return Qtrue;
+ }
++#endif /* HAVE_RAND_EGD */
+ 
+ /*
+  *  call-seq:
+@@ -219,7 +221,9 @@ Init_ossl_rand(void)
+     DEFMETH(mRandom, "write_random_file", ossl_rand_write_file, 1);
+     DEFMETH(mRandom, "random_bytes", ossl_rand_bytes, 1);
+     DEFMETH(mRandom, "pseudo_bytes", ossl_rand_pseudo_bytes, 1);
++#ifdef HAVE_RAND_EGD
+     DEFMETH(mRandom, "egd", ossl_rand_egd, 1);
+     DEFMETH(mRandom, "egd_bytes", ossl_rand_egd_bytes, 2);
++#endif /* HAVE_RAND_EGD */
+     DEFMETH(mRandom, "status?", ossl_rand_status, 0)
+ }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/ruby22-rand-egd.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/ruby22-rand-egd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ebf2bf56fcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/ruby22-rand-egd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+diff --git a/ext/openssl/extconf.rb b/ext/openssl/extconf.rb
+index e272cba..3a1fa71 100644
+--- a/ext/openssl/extconf.rb
++++ b/ext/openssl/extconf.rb
+@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
+ have_func("PEM_def_callback")
+ have_func("PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC")
+ have_func("PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1")
++have_func("RAND_egd")
+ have_func("X509V3_set_nconf")
+ have_func("X509V3_EXT_nconf_nid")
+ have_func("X509_CRL_add0_revoked")
+diff --git a/ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c b/ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c
+index 29cbf8c..27466fe 100644
+--- a/ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c
++++ b/ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c
+@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ ossl_rand_pseudo_bytes(VALUE self, VALUE len)
+     return str;
+ }
+ 
++#ifdef HAVE_RAND_EGD
+ /*
+  *  call-seq:
+  *     egd(filename) -> true
+@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ ossl_rand_egd_bytes(VALUE self, VALUE filename, VALUE len)
+     }
+     return Qtrue;
+ }
++#endif /* HAVE_RAND_EGD */
+ 
+ /*
+  *  call-seq:
+@@ -219,8 +221,10 @@ Init_ossl_rand(void)
+     rb_define_module_function(mRandom, "write_random_file", ossl_rand_write_file, 1);
+     rb_define_module_function(mRandom, "random_bytes", ossl_rand_bytes, 1);
+     rb_define_module_function(mRandom, "pseudo_bytes", ossl_rand_pseudo_bytes, 1);
++#ifdef HAVE_RAND_EGD
+     rb_define_module_function(mRandom, "egd", ossl_rand_egd, 1);
+     rb_define_module_function(mRandom, "egd_bytes", ossl_rand_egd_bytes, 2);
++#endif /* HAVE_RAND_EGD */
+     rb_define_module_function(mRandom, "status?", ossl_rand_status, 0);
+ }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/default.nix
index 21ba0b8cba4..1fe4b90b2b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/default.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "12v6v2ccw1y6ng3kny3xw0lfs58d1klylqq707k0x04m707kydj4";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]
+    ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isi686 "stackprotector";
+
   buildInputs = [ readline ];
 
   postUnpack = "sourceRoot=\${sourceRoot}/src";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/supercollider/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/supercollider/default.nix
index 20690cbd477..dcb1f8e7062 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/supercollider/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/supercollider/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1mybxcnl7flliz74kdfnvh18v5dwd9zbdsw2kc7wpl4idcly1n0s";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   cmakeFlags = ''
     -DSC_WII=OFF
     -DSC_EL=${if useSCEL then "ON" else "OFF"}
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [
     gcc libjack2 libsndfile fftw curl libXt qt55.qtwebkit qt55.qttools readline ]
-    ++ optional useSCEL emacs;
+      ++ optional useSCEL emacs;
 
   meta = {
     description = "Programming language for real time audio synthesis";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/unicon-lang/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/unicon-lang/default.nix
index 7487aa63313..a6dfec49b2a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/unicon-lang/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/unicon-lang/default.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
   buildInputs = [ libX11 libXt unzip ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+
   sourceRoot = ".";
 
   configurePhase = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/wasm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/wasm/default.nix
index 56eebbf89a2..9a30ae7d8a8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/wasm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/wasm/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ let
     buildInputs = [ cmake clang python ];
 
     buildPhase = "make clang-debug-no-tests";
+
+    hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
     installPhase = ''
       mkdir -p $out/bin
       cp out/clang/Debug/no-tests/sexpr-wasm $out/bin
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/CoinMP/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/CoinMP/default.nix
index e819078f786..079c0a5cf6f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/CoinMP/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/CoinMP/default.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0gqi2vqkg35gazzzv8asnhihchnbjcd6bzjfzqhmj7wy1dw9iiw6";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinMP/;
     description = "COIN-OR lightweight API for COIN-OR libraries CLP, CBC, and CGL";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/a52dec/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/a52dec/default.nix
index 5c7cd9fddc6..d8a56a3d28e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/a52dec/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/a52dec/default.nix
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0czccp4fcpf2ykp16xcrzdfmnircz1ynhls334q374xknd5747d2";
   };
 
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-fpic";
-
   # From Handbrake
   patches = [
     ./A00-a52-state-t-public.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/accelio/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/accelio/default.nix
index 76c5cf32bbd..002b26078f5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/accelio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/accelio/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "172frqk2n43g0arhazgcwfvj0syf861vdzdpxl7idr142bb0ykf7";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" "pic" ];
+
   patches = [ ./fix-printfs.patch ];
 
   postPatch = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/default.nix
index deb3a6877e8..997a8d22305 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/default.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     xf86dgaproto xf86miscproto xf86vidmodeproto libXxf86vm openal mesa
   ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   cmakeFlags = [ "-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/2.5.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/2.5.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c1bbbb0ae5a..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/2.5.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "aterm-2.5-r21238";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://buildfarm.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/releases/meta-environment/aterm-2.5pre21238-l2q7rg38/aterm-2.5.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "33ddcb1a229baf406ad1f603eb1d5995";
-  };
-
-  patches = [
-    # Fix for http://bugzilla.sen.cwi.nl:8080/show_bug.cgi?id=841
-    ./max-long.patch
-
-    # Patch the ATerm header files so that they don't rely on
-    # SIZEOF_LONG, SIZEOF_INT and SIZEOF_VOID_P being set.
-    ./sizeof.patch
-  ];
-
-  doCheck = true;
-
-  dontDisableStatic = true;
-
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-D__USE_BSD";
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/sen1/twiki/bin/view/SEN1/ATerm;
-    license = "LGPL";
-    description = "Library for manipulation of term data structures in C";
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux ++ stdenv.lib.platforms.darwin;
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.eelco ];
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/max-long.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/max-long.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a2f260b970b..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/max-long.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-diff -rc aterm-2.8-orig/aterm/hash.c aterm-2.8/aterm/hash.c
-*** aterm-2.8-orig/aterm/hash.c	2008-11-10 13:54:22.000000000 +0100
---- aterm-2.8/aterm/hash.c	2009-01-27 18:14:14.000000000 +0100
-***************
-*** 93,146 ****
-  }
-  
-  /*}}}  */
-- /*{{{  static long calc_long_max() */
-- static long calc_long_max()
-- {
--   long try_long_max;
--   long long_max;
--   long delta;
-- 
--   try_long_max = 1;
--   do {
--     long_max = try_long_max;
--     try_long_max = long_max * 2;
--   } while (try_long_max > 0);
-- 
--   delta = long_max;
--   while (delta > 1) {
--     while (long_max + delta < 0) {
--       delta /= 2;
--     }
--     long_max += delta;
--   }
-- 
--   return long_max;
-- 
-- }
-- /*}}}  */
-  /*{{{  static long calculateNewSize(sizeMinus1, nrdel, nrentries) */
-  
-  static long calculateNewSize
-  (long sizeMinus1, long nr_deletions, long nr_entries)
-  { 
-- 
--   /* Hack: LONG_MAX (limits.h) is often unreliable, we need to find
--    * out the maximum possible value of a signed long dynamically.
--    */
--   static long st_long_max = 0;
-- 
--   /* the resulting length has the form 2^k-1 */
-- 
-    if (nr_deletions >= nr_entries/2) { 
-      return sizeMinus1;
-    }
-  
-!   if (st_long_max == 0) {
-!     st_long_max = calc_long_max();
-!   }
-! 
-!   if (sizeMinus1 > st_long_max / 2) {
-!     return st_long_max-1;
-    }
-  
-    return (2*sizeMinus1)+1;
---- 93,109 ----
-  }
-  
-  /*}}}  */
-  /*{{{  static long calculateNewSize(sizeMinus1, nrdel, nrentries) */
-  
-  static long calculateNewSize
-  (long sizeMinus1, long nr_deletions, long nr_entries)
-  { 
-    if (nr_deletions >= nr_entries/2) { 
-      return sizeMinus1;
-    }
-  
-!   if (sizeMinus1 > LONG_MAX / 2) {
-!     return LONG_MAX-1;
-    }
-  
-    return (2*sizeMinus1)+1;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/sizeof.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/sizeof.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2649cc56491..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/aterm/sizeof.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-diff -rc -x '*~' aterm-2.5-orig/aterm/aterm.c aterm-2.5/aterm/aterm.c
-*** aterm-2.5-orig/aterm/aterm.c	2007-02-27 23:41:31.000000000 +0100
---- aterm-2.5/aterm/aterm.c	2010-02-23 15:10:38.000000000 +0100
-***************
-*** 150,155 ****
---- 150,157 ----
-    if (initialized)
-      return;
-  
-+   assert(sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *));
-+ 
-    /*{{{  Handle arguments */
-  
-    for (lcv=1; lcv < argc; lcv++) {
-diff -rc -x '*~' aterm-2.5-orig/aterm/encoding.h aterm-2.5/aterm/encoding.h
-*** aterm-2.5-orig/aterm/encoding.h	2007-02-27 23:41:31.000000000 +0100
---- aterm-2.5/aterm/encoding.h	2010-02-23 15:36:05.000000000 +0100
-***************
-*** 10,24 ****
-  {
-  #endif/* __cplusplus */
-  
-! #if SIZEOF_LONG > 4
-! #define AT_64BIT
-  #endif
-  
-! #if SIZEOF_LONG != SIZEOF_VOID_P
-! #error Size of long is not the same as the size of a pointer
-  #endif
-  
-! #if SIZEOF_INT > 4
-  #error Size of int is not 32 bits
-  #endif
-  
---- 10,30 ----
-  {
-  #endif/* __cplusplus */
-  
-! #include <limits.h>
-! 
-! #ifndef SIZEOF_LONG
-! #if ULONG_MAX > 4294967295
-! #define SIZEOF_LONG 8
-! #else
-! #define SIZEOF_LONG 4
-! #endif
-  #endif
-  
-! #if SIZEOF_LONG > 4
-! #define AT_64BIT
-  #endif
-  
-! #if UINT_MAX > 4294967295
-  #error Size of int is not 32 bits
-  #endif
-  
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/audio/libbs2b/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/audio/libbs2b/default.nix
index d81bceffffb..b625bb18b88 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/audio/libbs2b/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/audio/libbs2b/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libsndfile ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://bs2b.sourceforge.net/";
     description = "Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP library";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cgui/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cgui/default.nix
index 0f117862236..da9d1122cc5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/cgui/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cgui/default.nix
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ texinfo allegro perl ];
 
   configurePhase = ''
-    export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="$NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE -fPIC"
     sh fix.sh unix
   '';
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   makeFlags = [ "SYSTEM_DIR=$(out)" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cloog/0.18.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cloog/0.18.0.nix
index ccd93828319..359bde2e058 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/cloog/0.18.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cloog/0.18.0.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   doCheck = true;
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "Library that generates loops for scanning polyhedra";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix
index 41d6320adc6..980155c007a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix
@@ -1,26 +1,34 @@
 { stdenv, autoreconfHook, fetchgit, bison, flex, bluez, pkgconfig, gtk }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-    name = "cwiid-2010-02-21-git";
-    src = fetchgit {
-        url = https://github.com/abstrakraft/cwiid;
-        sha256 = "0qdb0x757k76nfj32xc2nrrdqd9jlwgg63vfn02l2iznnzahxp0h";
-        rev = "fadf11e89b579bcc0336a0692ac15c93785f3f82";
-    };
-    configureFlags = "--without-python";
-    prePatch = ''
-        sed -i -e '/$(LDCONFIG)/d' common/include/lib.mak.in
-    '';
-    buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook bison flex bluez pkgconfig gtk ];
-    postInstall = ''
-        # Some programs (for example, cabal-install) have problems with the double 0
-        sed -i -e "s/0.6.00/0.6.0/" $out/lib/pkgconfig/cwiid.pc
-    '';
-    meta = {
-        description = "Linux Nintendo Wiimote interface";
-        homepage = http://cwiid.org;
-        license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-        maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.bennofs ];
-        platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux; 
-    };   
+  name = "cwiid-2010-02-21-git";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+      url = https://github.com/abstrakraft/cwiid;
+      sha256 = "0qdb0x757k76nfj32xc2nrrdqd9jlwgg63vfn02l2iznnzahxp0h";
+      rev = "fadf11e89b579bcc0336a0692ac15c93785f3f82";
+  };
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
+  configureFlags = "--without-python";
+
+  prePatch = ''
+    sed -i -e '/$(LDCONFIG)/d' common/include/lib.mak.in
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook bison flex bluez pkgconfig gtk ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    # Some programs (for example, cabal-install) have problems with the double 0
+    sed -i -e "s/0.6.00/0.6.0/" $out/lib/pkgconfig/cwiid.pc
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Linux Nintendo Wiimote interface";
+    homepage = http://cwiid.org;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.bennofs ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix
index 757b1f71405..00875d73f41 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ import ./generic.nix (args // rec {
   extraPatches = [ ./cygwin-4.4.patch ];
   sha256 = "0y9vsq8dkarx1mhhip1vaciz6imbbyv37c1dm8b20l7p064bg2i9";
   branch = "4.4";
+  drvArgs = { hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; };
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix
index b1e4b2c4708..84b5ea67420 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ import ./generic.nix (args // rec {
   extraPatches = [ ./cygwin-4.5.patch ./register-race-fix.patch ];
   sha256 = "0bd81k0qv5i8w5gbddrvld45xi9k1gvmcrfm0393v0lrm37dab7m";
   branch = "4.5";
+  drvArgs = { hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; };
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix
index 9a7d586cd04..6016d112d51 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ import ./generic.nix (args // rec {
   version = "4.7.25";
   sha256 = "0gi667v9cw22c03hddd6xd6374l0pczsd56b7pba25c9sdnxjkzi";
   branch = "4.7";
+  drvArgs = { hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; };
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.8.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.8.nix
index 6a161b0b72d..40869a865ae 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.8.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.8.nix
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ import ./generic.nix (args // rec {
   extraPatches = [ ./clang-4.8.patch ];
   sha256 = "0ampbl2f0hb1nix195kz1syrqqxpmvnvnfvphambj7xjrl3iljg0";
   branch = "4.8";
+  drvArgs = { hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; };
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/generic.nix
index f5ee4e440ff..fdc828effdf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/generic.nix
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@
 , extraPatches ? [ ]
 , license ? stdenv.lib.licenses.sleepycat
 , branch ? null
+, drvArgs ? {}
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
   name = "db-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
@@ -42,4 +43,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms = platforms.unix;
     branch = branch;
   };
-}
+} // drvArgs)
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/faac/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/faac/default.nix
index 802aafc444c..1ab01033f4d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/faac/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/faac/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ++ optional mp4v2Support "--with-mp4v2"
     ++ optional drmSupport "--enable-drm";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   buildInputs = [ ]
     ++ optional mp4v2Support mp4v2;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/fox/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/fox/default.nix
index 2d44444ab40..d47a028cbf8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/fox/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/fox/default.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "C++ based class library for building Graphical User Interfaces";
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/fox/fox-1.6.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/fox/fox-1.6.nix
index 3c823adf91b..ce778e4a347 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/fox/fox-1.6.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/fox/fox-1.6.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     branch = "1.6";
     description = "A C++ based class library for building Graphical User Interfaces";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix
index 695abcfbba2..3ed308a3492 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0r946axzxs0czsmr7283w7vmk5jx3jnxxc32d2ncxsrsh2yli0ba";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional odbcSupport [ unixODBC ];
 
   configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optionalString odbcSupport "--with-odbc=${unixODBC}";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/fribidi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/fribidi/default.nix
index 669d023dde8..35d67b63309 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/fribidi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/fribidi/default.nix
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "fribidi-${version}";
   version = "0.19.6";
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://fribidi.org/download/${name}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "0zg1hpaml34ny74fif97j7ngrshlkl3wk3nja3gmlzl17i1bga6b";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://fribidi.org/;
     description = "GNU implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (bidi)";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix
index dfeec5d8890..06da5d4264d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix
@@ -19,10 +19,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0g3xz8jpz1pl2zzmssglrpa9nxiaa7rmcmvgpbrjz8k9cyynqsvl";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # -pthread gets passed to clang, causing warnings
   configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin "--enable-werror=no";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+
   buildInputs = [ zlib fontconfig freetype ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libpng libjpeg libwebp libtiff libXpm ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/default.nix
index f19f760c748..90341898a8a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/default.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} (fixed: rec {
   ++ (with pythonPackages; [ python numpy wrapPython ])
   ++ (stdenv.lib.optionals netcdfSupport [ netcdf hdf5 curl ]);
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # Don't use optimization for gcc >= 4.3. That's said to be causing segfaults.
   # Unset CC and CXX as they confuse libtool.
   preConfigure = "export CFLAGS=-O0 CXXFLAGS=-O0; unset CC CXX";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/gdal-1_11.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/gdal-1_11.nix
index 06f8afba334..b62f87c2a21 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/gdal-1_11.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/gdal-1_11.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} (fixed: rec {
     ./python.patch
   ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # Don't use optimization for gcc >= 4.3. That's said to be causing segfaults.
   # Unset CC and CXX as they confuse libtool.
   preConfigure = "export CFLAGS=-O0 CXXFLAGS=-O0; unset CC CXX";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix
index cc8f76949ee..e9643da221e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "0hyms5s3hziajp3qbwdwqjc2xcyhb783damqg8wxjpwfxyi81fzl";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   buildInputs = [pkgconfig glib libxml2 gtkdoc];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [glib libxml2];
   patches = [ ./xml-document.patch ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix
index f66ade28da9..143a8fa2096 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib, babl, libpng, cairo, libjpeg, which
-, librsvg, pango, gtk, bzip2, intltool, libtool, automake, autoconf, json_glib }:
+, librsvg, pango, gtk, bzip2, json_glib, intltool, autoreconfHook }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "gegl-0.3.6";
@@ -9,17 +9,18 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "08m7dlf2kwmp7jw3qskwxas192swhn1g4jcd8aldg9drfjygprvh";
   };
 
-  configureScript = "./autogen.sh";
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
   # needs fonts otherwise  don't know how to pass them
   configureFlags = "--disable-docs";
 
-  buildInputs = [ babl libpng cairo libjpeg librsvg pango gtk bzip2 intltool
-                  autoconf automake libtool which json_glib ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    babl libpng cairo libjpeg librsvg pango gtk bzip2 which json_glib intltool
+  ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig autoreconfHook ];
 
-  meta = { 
+  meta = {
     description = "Graph-based image processing framework";
     homepage = http://www.gegl.org;
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/geoclue/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/geoclue/default.nix
index 1b703e2fdba..754c85ecf03 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/geoclue/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/geoclue/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [dbus glib dbus_glib];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   preConfigure = ''
     sed -e '/-Werror/d' -i configure
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix
index bf65e694753..7d555ba4d06 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   outputs = [ "out" "doc" ];
 
+  # FIXME stackprotector needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" "stackprotector" ];
+
   LDFLAGS = if stdenv.isSunOS then "-lm -lmd -lmp -luutil -lnvpair -lnsl -lidmap -lavl -lsec" else "";
 
   configureFlags = [ "--disable-csharp" "--with-xz" ]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/4.1.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/4.1.nix
index 2f9d54c0b4e..c70bda03487 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/4.1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/4.1.nix
@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "giflib-4.1.6";
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://sourceforge/giflib/giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2;
     sha256 = "1v9b7ywz7qg8hli0s9vv1b8q9xxb2xvqq2mg1zpr73xwqpcwxhg1";
   };
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     branch = "4.1";
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/libungif.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/libungif.nix
index 4abd96fa3ce..357ca751ccf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/libungif.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/giflib/libungif.nix
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "5e65e1e5deacd0cde489900dbf54c6c2ee2ebc818199e720dbad685d87abda3d";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/default.nix
index 2a1652a5501..83b554a34ae 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/default.nix
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ in
       makeFlagsArray+=("bindir=$bin/bin" "sbindir=$bin/sbin" "rootsbindir=$bin/sbin")
     '';
 
+    hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" "fortify" ];
+
     # When building glibc from bootstrap-tools, we need libgcc_s at RPATH for
     # any program we run, because the gcc will have been placed at a new
     # store path than that determined when built (as a source for the
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gmp/5.1.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gmp/5.1.x.nix
index 1e9142444d1..c6cbfdd89b4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gmp/5.1.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gmp/5.1.x.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ m4 ];
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" "stackprotector" ];
+
   patches = if stdenv.isDarwin then [ ./need-size-t.patch ] else null;
 
   configureFlags =
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gnu-efi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gnu-efi/default.nix
index 336785e1abd..d679d88e91d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gnu-efi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gnu-efi/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ pciutils ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   makeFlags = [
     "PREFIX=\${out}"
     "CC=gcc"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gsm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gsm/default.nix
index fb9ff8eb0fb..42d36b8406e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gsm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gsm/default.nix
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   preInstall = "mkdir -p $out/{bin,lib,man/man1,man/man3,include/gsm}";
 
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = optional (!staticSupport) "-fPIC";
-
   parallelBuild = false;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/legacy/gst-python/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/legacy/gst-python/default.nix
index b0ac9e799e9..249eb9a30da 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/legacy/gst-python/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/legacy/gst-python/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0y1i4n5m1diljqr9dsq12anwazrhbs70jziich47gkdwllcza9lg";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "bindnow" ];
+
   # Need to disable the testFake test case due to bug in pygobject.
   # See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692479
   patches = [ ./disable-testFake.patch ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/hspell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/hspell/default.nix
index 9b44d12c293..eebd105a00d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/hspell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/hspell/default.nix
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   patchPhase = ''patchShebangs .'';
   buildInputs = [ perl zlib ];
 
-  makeFlags = "CFLAGS=-fPIC";
-
   meta = {
     description = "Hebrew spell checker";
     homepage = http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
index 0d0ff38fb47..d48c598dd92 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ ncurses readline ];
   configureFlags = [ "--with-ui" "--with-readline" ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://hunspell.sourceforge.net;
     description = "Spell checker";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/isl/0.14.1.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/isl/0.14.1.nix
index 8196dec283a..77ba20cbb20 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/isl/0.14.1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/isl/0.14.1.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.kotnet.org/~skimo/isl/;
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl21;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/itk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/itk/default.nix
index 7b4e3834af7..eda9434ab65 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/itk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/itk/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF"
     "-DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF"
     "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
-    "-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-fPIC"
   ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/swt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/swt/default.nix
index 37b8b502c3b..5ea6fa644cd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/swt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/swt/default.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   fullVersion = "${version}-201202080800";
   name = "swt-${version}";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # Alas, the Eclipse Project apparently doesn't produce source-only
   # releases of SWT.  So we just grab a binary release and extract
   # "src.zip" from that.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libdnet/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libdnet/default.nix
index 8911539d7b0..dbda4107c48 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libdnet/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libdnet/default.nix
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ automake autoconf libtool ];
 
-  CFLAGS="-fPIC";
-
   # .so endings are missing (quick and dirty fix)
   postInstall = ''
     for i in $out/lib/*; do
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libdwg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libdwg/default.nix
index f44d228f650..2a2dfbb0be5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libdwg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libdwg/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ indent ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "Library reading dwg files";
     homepage = http://libdwg.sourceforge.net/en/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libelf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libelf/default.nix
index 12588617d4a..5027afa397a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libelf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libelf/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   doCheck = true;
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   # For cross-compiling, native glibc is needed for the "gencat" program.
   crossAttrs = {
     nativeBuildInputs = [ gettext glibc ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libf2c/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libf2c/default.nix
index 97168c3ae6c..78901e2f013 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libf2c/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libf2c/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "libf2c-20100903";
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = http://www.netlib.org/f2c/libf2c.zip;
     sha256 = "1mcp1lh7gay7hm186dr0wvwd2bc05xydhnc1qy3dqs4n3r102g7i";
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ unzip ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "F2c converts Fortran 77 source code to C";
     homepage = http://www.netlib.org/f2c/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libgeotiff/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libgeotiff/default.nix
index d07aae3ab80..d30ea6e5324 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libgeotiff/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libgeotiff/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ libtiff ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "Library implementing attempt to create a tiff based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery";
     homepage = http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/geotiff.html;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix
index af8c1a8f1a2..a6c739017ee 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libgphoto2/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # These are mentioned in the Requires line of libgphoto's pkg-config file.
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libexif ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/;
     description = "A library for accessing digital cameras";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix
index d1abf155ae3..52b74c54d99 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   doCheck = ! stdenv.isDarwin;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin libiconv;
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libjson-rpc-cpp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libjson-rpc-cpp/default.nix
index 2cfede1eb6e..ca60f1570bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libjson-rpc-cpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libjson-rpc-cpp/default.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     rev = "c6e3d7195060774bf95afc6df9c9588922076d3e";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   patchPhase = ''
     for f in cmake/FindArgtable.cmake \
              src/stubgenerator/stubgenerator.cpp \
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmpc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmpc/default.nix
index 2a4600f5204..0d3c9c0997c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmpc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmpc/default.nix
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   doCheck = true;
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "Library for multiprecision complex arithmetic with exact rounding";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/librsync/0.9.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/librsync/0.9.nix
index 9738794b6b1..0954694cf29 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/librsync/0.9.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/librsync/0.9.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "librsync-0.9.7";
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://sourceforge/librsync/librsync-0.9.7.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "1mj1pj99mgf1a59q9f2mxjli2fzxpnf55233pc1klxk2arhf8cv6";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   configureFlags = if stdenv.isCygwin then "--enable-static" else "--enable-shared";
 
   crossAttrs = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix
index da09e2fcbe2..7eea905f64a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ xz ];
 
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = if stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux" then "-fPIC" else "";
   preInstall = ''
     mkdir -p "$out/lib"
     touch "$out/lib/libunwind-generic.so"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvisual/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvisual/default.nix
index dc2f0338b48..50a1f5ac337 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvisual/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvisual/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig glib ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "An abstraction library for audio visualisations";
     homepage = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvisual/";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libyaml-cpp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libyaml-cpp/default.nix
index ef806bce123..21442cd1624 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libyaml-cpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libyaml-cpp/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, boost, makePIC ? false }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, boost }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "libyaml-cpp-${version}";
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ cmake boost ];
 
-  cmakeFlags = stdenv.lib.optionals makePIC [ "-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-fPIC" "-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-fPIC" ];
-
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     inherit (src.meta) homepage;
     description = "A YAML parser and emitter for C++";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/motif/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/motif/default.nix
index 9d50fb3d3d1..4d9f1d56b3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/motif/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/motif/default.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libXp libXau ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   makeFlags = [ "CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing" ];
 
   patchPhase = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mp4v2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/mp4v2/default.nix
index 06e8c8e5ac3..ab3c3ed8c5a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/mp4v2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/mp4v2/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # `faac' expects `mp4.h'.
   postInstall = "ln -s mp4v2/mp4v2.h $out/include/mp4.h";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://code.google.com/p/mp4v2;
     maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.urkud ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix
index 8a964af01c8..882e0ec4faa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # mpfr.h requires gmp.h
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ gmp ];
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   configureFlags =
     stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isSunOS "--disable-thread-safe" ++
     stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.is64bit "--with-pic";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/nvidia-texture-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/nvidia-texture-tools/default.nix
index 754ab4233e5..f35d363e575 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/nvidia-texture-tools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/nvidia-texture-tools/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ cmake libpng ilmbase libtiff zlib libjpeg mesa libX11 ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   patchPhase = ''
     # Fix build due to missing dependnecies.
     echo 'target_link_libraries(bc7 nvmath)' >> src/nvtt/bc7/CMakeLists.txt
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/6.5.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/6.5.nix
index 904137c4d8c..252a6bb0ad1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/6.5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/6.5.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83631
     + " -DGLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   configureFlags = [ "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib" "--with-tk=${tk}/lib" "--with-qt=${qt4}" "--with-ftgl=${ftgl}" "--with-freetype=${freetype.dev}" ];
 
   postInstall = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/default.nix
index 536281d5372..8a7f9970e65 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencascade/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83631
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-DGLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   postInstall = ''
     mv $out/inc $out/include
     mkdir -p $out/share/doc/${name}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
index 187b6df39b2..9ca59c9c73a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "bindnow" "relro" ];
+
   passthru = lib.optionalAttrs enablePython { pythonPath = []; };
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/default.nix
index 70ea306ae80..f792e17890c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/default.nix
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "bindnow" "relro" ];
+
   passthru = lib.optionalAttrs enablePython { pythonPath = []; };
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/pdf2xml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/pdf2xml/default.nix
index 52c785becc5..c4cb57f3fa2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/pdf2xml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/pdf2xml/default.nix
@@ -2,20 +2,22 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "pdf2xml";
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
       url = http://tarballs.nixos.org/pdf2xml.tar.gz;
       sha256 = "04rl7ppxqgnvxvvws669cxp478lnrdmiqj0g3m4p69bawfjc4z3w";
   };
   sourceRoot = "pdf2xml/pdf2xml";
-  
+
   buildInputs = [libxml2 libxpdf];
 
   patches = [./pdf2xml.patch];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   preBuild = ''
     cp Makefile.linux Makefile
-  
+
     sed -i 's|/usr/include/libxml2|${libxml2.dev}/include/libxml2|' Makefile
     sed -i 's|-lxml2|-lxml2 -L${libxml2.out}/lib|' Makefile
     sed -i 's|XPDF = xpdf_3.01|XPDF = ${libxpdf}/lib|' Makefile
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
     buildFlags+=" CXX=$CXX"
   '';
-  
+
   installPhase = ''
     mkdir -p $out/bin
     cp exe/* $out/bin
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/plib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/plib/default.nix
index 51e59fda5ac..4030be2996c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/plib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/plib/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 { fetchurl, fetchpatch, stdenv, mesa, freeglut, SDL
-, libXi, libSM, libXmu, libXext, libX11,
-enablePIC ? false }:
+, libXi, libSM, libXmu, libXext, libX11 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "plib-1.8.5";
@@ -22,8 +21,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     })
   ];
 
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = if enablePIC then "-fPIC" else "";
-
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     mesa freeglut SDL
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/portmidi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/portmidi/default.nix
index 6ca35ab3c57..5318df44517 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/portmidi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/portmidi/default.nix
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ unzip cmake /*jdk*/ alsaLib ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/portmidi/";
     description = "Platform independent library for MIDI I/O";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/pupnp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/pupnp/default.nix
index 9d47b557551..2138e1689b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/pupnp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/pupnp/default.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0amjv4lypvclmi4vim2qdyw5xa6v4x50zjgf682vahqjc0wjn55k";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "libupnp, an open source UPnP development kit for Linux";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qhull/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/qhull/default.nix
index 58d11c04fcc..829765d8549 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/qhull/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qhull/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   cmakeFlags = "-DMAN_INSTALL_DIR=share/man/man1 -DDOC_INSTALL_DIR=share/doc/qhull";
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   patchPhase = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
     sed -i 's/namespace std { struct bidirectional_iterator_tag; struct random_access_iterator_tag; }/#include <iterator>/' ./src/libqhullcpp/QhullIterator.h
     sed -i 's/namespace std { struct bidirectional_iterator_tag; struct random_access_iterator_tag; }/#include <iterator>/' ./src/libqhullcpp/QhullLinkedList.h
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-3/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-3/default.nix
index e7b4b907df9..ffbc7f27386 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-3/default.nix
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ which ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [libpng xlibsWrapper libXft libXrender zlib libjpeg];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   configureFlags = "
     -v
     -system-zlib -system-libpng -system-libjpeg
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qtscriptgenerator/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/qtscriptgenerator/default.nix
index 5b93fbfaade..3221fec4b4b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/qtscriptgenerator/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qtscriptgenerator/default.nix
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildInputs = [ qt4 ];
 
   patches = [ ./qtscriptgenerator.gcc-4.4.patch ./qt-4.8.patch ];
-  
+
   # Why isn't the author providing proper Makefile or a CMakeLists.txt ?
   buildPhase = ''
     # remove phonon stuff which causes errors (thanks to Gentoo bug reports)
     sed -i "/typesystem_phonon.xml/d" generator/generator.qrc
-    sed -i "/qtscript_phonon/d" qtbindings/qtbindings.pro	    
-  
+    sed -i "/qtscript_phonon/d" qtbindings/qtbindings.pro
+
     cd generator
     qmake
     make
@@ -25,13 +25,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     qmake
     make
   '';
-  
+
   installPhase = ''
     cd ..
     mkdir -p $out/lib/qt4/plugins/script
     cp -av plugins/script/* $out/lib/qt4/plugins/script
   '';
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "QtScript bindings generator";
     homepage = http://code.google.com/p/qtscriptgenerator/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/atlas/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/atlas/default.nix
index 23f12e7cf76..6ff7e387ec1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/atlas/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/atlas/default.nix
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   patches = optional tolerateCpuTimingInaccuracy ./disable-timing-accuracy-check.patch
     ++ optional stdenv.isDarwin ./tmpdir.patch;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # Configure outside of the source directory.
   preConfigure = ''
     mkdir build
@@ -73,14 +75,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     configureScript=../configure
   '';
 
-  # * -fPIC is passed even in non-shared builds so that the ATLAS code can be
-  #   used to inside of shared libraries, like Octave does.
-  #
   # * -t 0 disables use of multi-threading. It's not quite clear what the
   #   consequences of that setting are and whether it's necessary or not.
   configureFlags = [
-    "-Fa alg"
-    "-fPIC"
     "-t ${threads}"
     cpuConfig
   ] ++ optional shared "--shared"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix
index f81df2a6c02..99f54cebddd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     "LAPACK="
   ];
 
-  NIX_CFLAGS = "-fPIC" + stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin " -DNTIMER";
+  NIX_CFLAGS = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin " -DNTIMER";
 
   postInstall = ''
     # Build and install shared library
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix
index 388b34d31e1..77a74c4e844 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/smpeg/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   buildInputs = [ SDL gtk mesa ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake libtool m4 pkgconfig makeWrapper ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/speechd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/speechd/default.nix
index 613fee3c6d6..1a943be0fc2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/speechd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/speechd/default.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
              ++ lib.optional withPico svox;
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig python3Packages.wrapPython ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   pythonPath = with python3Packages; [ pyxdg ];
 
   postPatch = lib.optionalString withPico ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tidyp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tidyp/default.nix
index fee74f3d6f9..ba95da77b72 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tidyp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tidyp/default.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0f5ky0ih4vap9c6j312jn73vn8m2bj69pl2yd3a5nmv35k9zmc10";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A program that can validate your HTML, as well as modify it to be more clean and standard";
     homepage = http://tidyp.com/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/default.nix
index 725a0bdfcea..b9f3c0e64d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, unzip, cmake, libtiff, expat, zlib, libpng, libjpeg }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, unzip, cmake, libtiff, expat, zlib, libpng, libjpeg }:
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "vxl-1.17.0";
+  name = "vxl-1.17.0-nix1";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://sourceforge/vxl/vxl-1.17.0.zip;
-    sha256 = "1qg7i8h201pa8jljg7vph4rlxk6n5cj9f9gd1hkkmbw6fh44lsxh";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "vxl";
+    repo = "vxl";
+    rev = "777c0beb7c8b30117400f6fc9a6d63bf8cb7c67a";
+    sha256 = "0xpkwwb93ka6c3da8zjhfg9jk5ssmh9ifdh1by54sz6c7mbp55m8";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ cmake unzip libtiff expat zlib libpng libjpeg ];
@@ -20,8 +22,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  patches = [ ./gcc5.patch ];
-
   meta = {
     description = "C++ Libraries for Computer Vision Research and Implementation";
     homepage = http://vxl.sourceforge.net/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/gcc5.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/gcc5.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4660f9e8f48..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/vxl/gcc5.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20150216/1511118.html
-
---- vxl-git4e07960/vcl/vcl_compiler.h~	2012-11-02 12:08:21.000000000 +0100
-+++ vxl-git4e07960/vcl/vcl_compiler.h	2015-02-15 13:50:46.376329878 +0100
-@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@
- #  else

- #   define VCL_GCC_40

- #  endif

-+# elif (__GNUC__== 5)

-+// pretend GCC 5 to be GCC 4

-+#  define VCL_GCC_4

-+#  define VCL_GCC_41

- # else

- #  error "Dunno about this gcc"

- # endif

diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xmlrpc-c/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xmlrpc-c/default.nix
index 56bcba8297d..0b5f08bdf9b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/xmlrpc-c/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xmlrpc-c/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     (cd tools/xmlrpc && make && make install)
   '';
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A lightweight RPC library based on XML and HTTP";
     homepage = http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix
index 2176fa6f31c..77f576239a9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     fi
   '';
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optional (!static) "--shared";
 
   postInstall = ''
@@ -47,8 +50,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   # As zlib takes part in the stdenv building, we don't want references
   # to the bootstrap-tools libgcc (as uses to happen on arm/mips)
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = stdenv.lib.optionalString (!stdenv.isDarwin) "-static-libgcc "
-                     + stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.isFreeBSD) "-fPIC";
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = stdenv.lib.optionalString (!stdenv.isDarwin) "-static-libgcc";
 
   crossAttrs = {
     dontStrip = static;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix
index 87a0d0dda9b..237c4e4027f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ gmp mpfr libmpc zlib ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # Make sure we don't strip the libraries in lib/gcc/avr.
   stripDebugList= [ "bin" "avr/bin" "libexec" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/pharo/vm/build-vm.nix b/pkgs/development/pharo/vm/build-vm.nix
index 3dfe913145c..8265e1dc776 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/pharo/vm/build-vm.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/pharo/vm/build-vm.nix
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     mimeType = "application/x-pharo-image";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # Building
   preConfigure = ''
     cd build/
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/wxPython/3.0.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/wxPython/3.0.nix
index 7c225a95f2a..5f224428fce 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/wxPython/3.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/wxPython/3.0.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sha256 = "0qfzx3sqx4mwxv99sfybhsij4b5pc03ricl73h4vhkzazgjjjhfm";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig wxGTK (wxGTK.gtk) libX11 ]  ++ lib.optional openglSupport pyopengl;
   preConfigure = "cd wxPython";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/cccc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/cccc/default.nix
index c672c7964e7..b63bc66fabd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/cccc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/cccc/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/${name}/${version}/${name}-${version}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "1gsdzzisrk95kajs3gfxks3bjvfd9g680fin6a9pjrism2lyrcr7";
   };
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   patches = [ ./cccc.patch ];
+
   preConfigure = ''
     substituteInPlace install/install.mak --replace /usr/local/bin $out/bin
     substituteInPlace install/install.mak --replace MKDIR=mkdir "MKDIR=mkdir -p"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/flow/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/flow/default.nix
index 2cff523323f..e54436f5a2f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/flow/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/flow/default.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ with lib;
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "0.28.0";
   name = "flow-${version}";
+
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "facebook";
     repo = "flow";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/garcosim/tracefilesim/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/garcosim/tracefilesim/default.nix
index 740d51cc134..7a6f3481d53 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/garcosim/tracefilesim/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/garcosim/tracefilesim/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "156m92k38ap4bzidbr8dzl065rni8lrib71ih88myk9z5y1x5nxm";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+
   installPhase = ''
     mkdir --parents "$out/bin"
     cp ./traceFileSim "$out/bin"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare/default.nix
index 3c83f0e9d49..d42227198ce 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/radare/default.nix
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ assert useX11 -> (gtk != null && vte != null && gtkdialog != null);
 assert rubyBindings -> ruby != null;
 assert pythonBindings -> python != null;
 
-let 
-  optional = stdenv.lib.optional;
+let
+  inherit (stdenv.lib) optional;
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "radare-1.5.2";
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1qdrmcnzfvfvqb27c7pknwm8jl2hqa6c4l66wzyddwlb8yjm46hd";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
   buildInputs = [pkgconfig readline libusb perl]
     ++ optional useX11 [gtkdialog vte gtk]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/rr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/rr/default.nix
index c1184445e28..8cd38a152ec 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/rr/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/rr/default.nix
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-Ddisable32bit=ON"
   ];
 
+  # we turn on additional warnings due to hardening
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error";
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   # FIXME
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
index b4b56be9c6d..0e0e44183f6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   outputs = [ "out" "doc" ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   # Perl is needed for `cg_annotate'.
   # GDB is needed to provide a sane default for `--db-command'.
   nativeBuildInputs = [ perl ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/boost-build/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/boost-build/default.nix
index 723219336bb..240d24961e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/boost-build/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/boost-build/default.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "10sbbkx2752r4i1yshyp47nw29lyi1p34sy6hj7ivvnddiliayca";
   };
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   patchPhase = ''
     grep -r '/usr/share/boost-build' \
       | awk '{split($0,a,":"); print a[1];}' \
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
index bbdb01bdc65..93b0b35c815 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   inherit noSysDirs;
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   preConfigure = ''
     # Clear the default library search path.
     if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/elfutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/elfutils/default.nix
index 0a62859d207..d4a2f80599f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/elfutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/elfutils/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [ ./glibc-2.21.patch ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   # We need bzip2 in NativeInputs because otherwise we can't unpack the src,
   # as the host-bzip2 will be in the path.
   nativeBuildInputs = [ m4 bison flex gettext bzip2 ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
index 0670428005e..0696dc90644 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # Upstream is aware of it; it may be in the next release.
   patches = [ ./s_isdir.patch ];
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/;
     description = "GNU M4, a macro processor";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
index 77a1f266168..807b2a9a49d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/patchelf/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   setupHook = [ ./setup-hook.sh ];
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   #doCheck = true; # problems when loading libc.so.6
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.1.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.1.nix
index f19ccb35508..e3001ffba7b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.1.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isSunOS "AWK=${gawk}/bin/awk";
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   preInstall = ''
     installFlags="TEXMF=$out/texmf-dist";
     installTargets="install install-tex";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/omniorb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/omniorb/default.nix
index 0fe4b191e50..da6760897ad 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/omniorb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/omniorb/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ python ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "omniORB is a robust high performance CORBA ORB for C++ and Python. It is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (for the libraries), and GNU General Public License (for the tools). omniORB is largely CORBA 2.6 compliant";
     homepage    = "http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix
index 6aa717c53cd..ebbee4e693d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ m4 perl ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isSunOS help2man;
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ m4 ];
 
+  # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
+  hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/";
     description = "Yacc-compatible parser generator";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/toluapp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/toluapp/default.nix
index c11e1b34f1a..64a2f4346c7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/toluapp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/toluapp/default.nix
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       --replace /usr/local $out
   '';
 
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-fPIC";
-
   buildPhase = ''scons'';
 
   installPhase = ''scons install'';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/web/wml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/web/wml/default.nix
index 3d47d32f1c8..58336c80e04 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/web/wml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/web/wml/default.nix
@@ -21,12 +21,14 @@ perlPackages.buildPerlPackage rec {
     sed -i 's/ doc / /g' wml_backend/p2_mp4h/Makefile.in
     sed -i '/p2_mp4h\/doc/d' Makefile.in
   '';
-  
+
   buildInputs = with perlPackages; 
     [ perl TermReadKey GD BitVector ncurses lynx makeWrapper ImageSize ];
 
   patches = [ ./redhat-with-thr.patch ./dynaloader.patch ./no_bitvector.patch ];
-  
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace wml_frontend/wml.src \
       --replace "File::PathConvert::realpath" "Cwd::realpath" \