Bug#835148: please do not make GCC incompatible, we have dpkg-buildflags for this! (was Re: Bug#837420: Processed: PIE FTBFS are now RC)

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Adrian Bunk dixit:

>gcc-6 6.2.0-7 uploaded to unstable on Tue 18 Oct 2016 defaults to PIE,
>see #835148 for details.

Oh, thanks.

This is *so* *totally* the wrong approach, especially as we
have dpkg-buildflags, which was introduced *precisely* for
this purpose, and to make Debian’s GCC not incompatible even
more with the rest of the world.

Matthias, please do revert this.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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