HEADS-UP: PIE enabled by default on main

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 25 February 2021 at 21:22:43 -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 19:23, John Kennedy <warlock at phouka.net> wrote:
>>
>>   Not sure if Ed Maste just wants to make sure that all the executables
>> are rebuilt as PIE (vs hit-and-miss) or there is a sneaker corner-case that
>> he knows about.
>
> The issue is that without a clean build you may have some .o files
> left around that are built without PIE enabled (i.e., compiled without
> -fPIE), and attempting to link them into a PIE executable will fail
> with an error like:
>
> ld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_X86_64_32 against local symbol in readonly segment; recompile object files with -fPIC or pass '-Wl,-z,notext' to allow text relocations in the output

Ah, thanks.  That makes more sense.

Greg
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