svn commit: r267233 - in head: . bin/rmail gnu/usr.bin/binutils/addr2line gnu/usr.bin/binutils/nm gnu/usr.bin/binutils/objcopy gnu/usr.bin/binutils/objdump gnu/usr.bin/binutils/readelf gnu/usr.bin/...

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On 08 Jun 2014, at 17:29 , Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Author: bdrewery
> Date: Sun Jun  8 17:29:31 2014
> New Revision: 267233
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/267233
> 
> Log:
>  In preparation for ASLR [1] support add WITH_PIE to support building with -fPIE.
> 
>  This is currently an opt-in build flag. Once ASLR support is ready and stable
>  it should changed to opt-out and be enabled by default along with ASLR.
> 
>  Each application Makefile uses opt-out to ensure that ASLR will be enabled by
>  default in new directories when the system is compiled with PIE/ASLR. [2]
> 
>  Mark known build failures as NO_PIE for now.

No, no, no, no more NOs!

I’ll leave it to others who understand the current build system in days when it’s not broken to fix this entire splattering across all these Makefiles;  we really need a better way for this.

— 
Bjoern A. Zeeb             "Come on. Learn, goddamn it.", WarGames, 1983