Bug#841438: --enable-default-pie breaks kernel build on amd64

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: severity -1 normal

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:48:52 +0100 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de> wrote:
> 
> Package: gcc-6
> Version: 6.2.0-7
> Severity: critical
> 
> The --enable-default-pie option breaks make-kpkg and normal kernel
> builds as the kernel cannot be compiled with pie option.
> 
> [...]
> 
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> Klaus Ethgen                                       http://www.ethgen.ch/

Hi Klaus,

There was consensus on enabling PIE by default via the
--enable-default-pie option.  If the make-kpkg and kernel packages now
FTBFS, we should reassign the bug to those packages.

Thanks,
~Niels