Bug#865775: postgis shouldn't disable PIE

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: tags -1 pending

On 06/24/2017 08:37 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> With gcc in stretch defaulting to PIE, hardening=+all,-pie changed
> semantics from "enable hardening but not PIE" to "enable all hardening
> and explicitely disable the default PIE".
> The latter is usually not intended.
> 
> 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.

PIE has been enabled now that it no longer causes build failures.

We still have a number of packages that need the same change, but
haven't been touched for stretch yet. Not changing this for postgis was
an oversight for the first upload for stretch.

A new upload to unstable will follow shortly.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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