GCL will not run successfully if compiled with -fstack-protector.  It has its own internal stack management code that interacts badly with -fstack-protector.  So I decided to try filtering that option out of the default CFLAGS.  I put this at the top of the GCL spec file:

%global __global_cflags %{echo %__global_cflags | %{__sed} 's/ -fstack-protector//'}

That seems to work, in that %configure passes RPM_OPT_FLAGS minus -fstack-protector, but when I run rpmbuild, I see:

echoechoechoechoechoechoechoechoExecuting(%prep): ...

What's with the 8 "echo" strings, one right after the other?  Is that something I should worry about?  Am I filtering CFLAGS the right way?  Do I need to get explicit permission from some group to do this?  Thanks,
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Jerry James
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