Bug#859368: gdal shouldn't disable PIE

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 10:40:18PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 04/02/2017 10:15 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The -pie in hardening flags was in some cases required in pre-stretch
> > releases to avoid build failures caused by (incorrectly) passing -fPIE
> > to the compiler when building shared libraries or plugins.
> > This problem does no longer exist.
> > 
> > Please apply the following change:
> 
> Only if it no longer breaks the Python bindings.
> 
> I'm a little short on time, so I'm tempted to move this to post-stretch.

If the Python bindings breakage was a FTBFS, then it was exactly
the problem I described.

And I verified that gdal builds with my change before sending the bug.

> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas

cu
Adrian

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