[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#837417: Bug#837417: ctn: Please build libctn.a with -fPIC

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Vincent,

2016-10-03 21:15 GMT+02:00 Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>:
> Le 28/09/2016 à 21:59, Balint Reczey a écrit :
>> Control: tags -1 patch pending
>
> [...]
> +export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -fPIC
> [...]
>
>   Why only enabling -fPIC? If the package is modified, won't it
> be better to enable hardening?

I have not enabled the extra flags because I hope that those
will become default. :-)
https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/PIEByDefaultTransition

>   Note that I do not know the package, so I do not know if there
> is performance impact or other side effects (as for -fPIC).

There is a minor performance impact but I believe no one will notice it.

Cheers,
Balint