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Re: Bug#552688: Please decide how Debian should enable hardening build flags



Kees,

am Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:34:02PM -0700 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> I really want have it be the default for at least amd64. There are a
> few issues that come to mind:
> 
> - speed impact in places
> - assembly FTBFSes
> - non-PIC .a file relocation

and gdb not supporting PIE executables?

>   Using PIE by default means that packages shipping non-PIC .a files
>   suddenly produce relocatable .a files. If a package that links against
>   them isn't building as PIE too, it will FTBFS.

"""
warning: The current binary is a PIE (Position Independent Executable), which
GDB does NOT currently support.  Most debugger features will fail if used
in this session.
"""

At least on squeeze with a package that has hardending-includes in its
build-depends…

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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