Hi Thorsten 2016-10-21 19:11 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de>: > Adrian Bunk dixit: > >>gcc-6 6.2.0-7 uploaded to unstable on Tue 18 Oct 2016 defaults to PIE, >>see #835148 for details. > > Oh, thanks. > > This is *so* *totally* the wrong approach, especially as we > have dpkg-buildflags, which was introduced *precisely* for > this purpose, and to make Debian’s GCC not incompatible even > more with the rest of the world.
You may have missed them, but there was several lengthy threads [1] on debian-devel discussing the possible solutions including the inapplicability of dpkg-buildflags for this problem. However, if you do have a better _working_ solution for enabling PIE archive-wide, please share that. I'm exploring possible options like patching (upstream) GCC to disable PIE for kernel or patching (upstream) kernel to disable PIE when it can be disabled. AFAIK the linux package is the only problematic package were the maintainer refused to disable PIE from packaging scripts. Cheers, Balint [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/05/msg00229.html
