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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:03:46
Message-Id: 200504181804.09317.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Monday 18 April 2005 05:04 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > On Monday 18 April 2005 22:50, John Huttley wrote:
3 > > I have been compiling everything recently with pic and pie.
4 > > I thought this would be a prerequisite for effective use of "prelink".
5 >
6 > It's a prerequisite for prelinking shared libraries, afaik.
7
8 correct
9
10 > It's not needed for executables, so this shouldn't be a problem.
11
12 executables are not shared objects so you do not build them with PIC (this of
13 course does not cover hardened usage of PIC/PIE)
14 -mike
15
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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>