Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > Question: does PIE imply pic/PIC?
The code is somewhat different, but in principle yes. > I.e does a PIE build also require USE="pic" Assembler code which breaks pic will also break pie, so better do not use that code. > and CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS="-fpic -fPIC"? These are usually added for libraries anyway. They do not belong into your "manual" configuration file. > If so, is there a way to disable PIE in profile 17.0? If you want to switch it off for a particular binary, there are -fno-PIE -no-pie. Ebuilds should add it automatically if needed. So far, I only needed it for clisp: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618170
