Static libraries - PIC or PIE?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

Hi Bálint,

there is some confusion regarding how static libraries should be 
compiled now.

Your bugs (e.g. #837350) say "Please build libfoo.a with -fPIC".

Why do these say -fPIC and not -fPIE?

My current understanding is that a binNMU would recompile the the static 
library with PIE (not PIC), and that this is sufficient.

Thanks
Adrian

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