On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 03:59:36PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > PIE FTBFS are now RC
>
> I don’t know whose stupid idea this is, but…
>
> >> severity 837420 serious
> >Bug #837420 [src:dietlibc] dietlibc: FTBFS with bindnow and PIE enabled
> >Severity set to 'serious' from 'important'
>
> … this can’t be right — a library cannot be built PIE, it must be
> built PIC instead.
>...
gcc-6 6.2.0-7 uploaded to unstable on Tue 18 Oct 2016 defaults to PIE,
see #835148 for details.
I did check that dietlibc does now FTBFS in unstable, and this is due to
the compiler enabling PIE by default.
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Adrian
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