Support for PIE builds (was [PATCH] Remove the autoconf build system)

[David Disseldorp]

Hi Metze,

On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:20:15 +0200
"Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze at samba.org> wrote:

...
> Somehow the pie flags are used for library code...
> 
> I'm getting this on debian squeeze i686:
> 
> [3784/4022] abi_check: bin/default/source3/libsmbldap.so
> 
> warning: The current binary is a PIE (Position Independent Executable),
> which
> GDB does NOT currently support.  Most debugger features will fail if used
> in this session.

This looks like a bug specific to Debian Squeeze:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346409

Sid's GDB (7.2) appears to offer PIE support. Did you see the same
warnings using autotools?

Cheers, David