Yes - thank you Joe. I'm still concerned that a tool like autoconf (which builds binaries) should be taught to do this at a higher level, across most autoconf libraries. But it's clearly not that easy to do.
Bill At 12:27 PM 1/25/2005, Joe Orton wrote: >On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:45:42AM -0600, William Rowe wrote: >> I'm --very-- confused by the first commit this morning. Care >> to answer the questions below before we keep throwing options >> and more config gook into an already crufty build system? > >http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.devel/18846 > >"-fPIE must only be used when compiling an object which will not be >linked into a shared object " i.e. it doesn't work by passing >CFLAGS/LDFLAGS alone. > >"(it's an optional feature since PIE binaries confuse some debuggers so >you don't necessarily want it on-by-default even if the toolchain >supports the flags)" > >does that not answer your questions?
