[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#509135: Bug#509135: Enable PIE during configure?

[Mathieu Parent]

2010/5/7 Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:57:13PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
>> Are there any objections to /me applying Kees patch to the trunk so
>> that samba is now compiled with PIE?
>
> Aside from gdb, the only other issue I remember ever having with PIE in the
> past was that it would break the build completely on some architectures.
> We'll find out soon enough if that's currently a problem by throwing it at
> the buildds. :)

For the GDB part, version 7.1 should work on PIE binaries. Version 7.1
is in unstable now.

Ref: http://lwn.net/Articles/379511/


Regards

Mathieu Parent