Hallo Ralf! Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Would it be worthwhile for Libtool to support building > position-independent executables (PIE) on platforms that support it? > > With the surge of security-related features that use PIE, and all the > knowledge Libtool already has integrated, this should be fairly > painless and might prove helpful, I think. > > Are there many non-GNU systems that allow this? Even if not, the > fallback to normal executables is usually an acceptable graceful > degradation. > > What do you think? Add it to TODO?
Sure, it sounds like it would be worth playing with at least.
Out of interest, what is involved? More than just a change to CFLAGS
or LDFLAGS one presumes?
Cheers,
Gary.
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