Re: [gentoo-hardened] -fno-PIE usage in ebuilds

[Ned Ludd]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 13:00, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I see that more and more ebuilds use -fno-PIE and -fno-pie (both)
>
> 1. Should we not make some arch dependent usage of these (built into gcc)?
> I need info about the different archs, which one should be used (the same
> as -fPIC / -fpic)
> 2. It would be more correct to use nopie, this will also disable the use
> of the PIC built crt start and endfile, else I should add -fno-PIE and
> -fno-pie to the crtfile selection too (this happens if some package calls
> directly ld, not through gcc)
>
> Peter

Only the flag-o-matic.eclass need to be altered for this.
It's behavior now is questionable at best.
-- 
Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer