On Thursday, 25 February 2021 at 21:22:43 -0500, Ed Maste wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 19:23, John Kennedy <warlock_at_phouka.net> wrote: >> >> Not sure if Ed Maste just wants to make sure that all the executables >> are rebuilt as PIE (vs hit-and-miss) or there is a sneaker corner-case that >> he knows about. > > The issue is that without a clean build you may have some .o files > left around that are built without PIE enabled (i.e., compiled without > -fPIE), and attempting to link them into a PIE executable will fail > with an error like: > > ld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_X86_64_32 against local symbol in readonly segment; recompile object files with -fPIC or pass '-Wl,-z,notext' to allow text relocations in the output Ah, thanks. That makes more sense. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
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