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

[David Disseldorp]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for pushing these patches.

On Tue, 28 May 2013 09:11:03 +1000
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> 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.

Our build farm still includes a number of hosts with older compilers
that do not offer PIE support. For this reason I'd like to change the
default to only build PIEs if supported by the compiler. --with-pie
would continue to enforce a mandatory check.

Patch to follow...

Cheers, David