[PATCH 2/2] waf: build position independent executables

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon May 27 17:11:03 MDT 2013


On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 17:57 +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> This patch re-instates support for building Position Independent
> Executables using the '-fPIE' and '-pie' compiler and linker flags
> respectively.
> 
> PIE builds are enabled by default, and can be explicitly disabled using
> the '--without-pie' configure argument.

I've reviewed and am autobuilding these patches.  

I did wonder about pie support in older GDBs, but we seem to have it on
by default in autoconf, and we have an easy way to turn it off anyway.

Andrew Bartlett
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