configure.in and pie

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

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Stefan (metze) Metzmacher schrieb:
> Lars Müller schrieb:
> 
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>at the moment we don't compile and link with pie options and also don't
>>>have the ability to do.
>>>
>>>As it must be possible to build Samba even with non pie aware tool
>>>chains, I've changes configure.in to add a test for pie.
>>>
>>>It's also possible to call configure with --disable-pie.  But the
>>>default would be with enabled pie.
>>>
>>>Lars

btw, what does this gane us?
from man gcc-4.0 I can't really understand what -fpie does compaired to -fPIC

I just read something that this objects can only be used for linking in executables,
(I'm not shure if I understand that correct...) but I don't see the point to use it.

Note in samba 4 we compile always with -fPIC (for executables and modules)
that avoids to recompile everything with other compilerflags again.
(btw: that was tridges idea)


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metze

Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org> www.samba.org
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