Hi, please consider including the attached a patch against the current git master branch that allows for build cyrus with -fPIE on system that support it. This will result in "Position Independent Executables" which provide addtional security by allowing the resulting executable to be loaded to a random address. Making certain security attacks harder to perform.
For some more details on PIE see here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~manuel/hlfs-book/glibc-2.4/chapter02/pie.html or here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code#Position-independent_executables We are using this patch (adopted for 2.3.X) sucessfully since quite some time in our packages. I also updated the enhancement request bugzilla: http://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2691 regards, Ralf -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
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