On 04/20/2017 09:23 PM, Ivy Foster via arch-general wrote:
> Francisco Barbee via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 20 April 2017 at 10:32:32,  Jelle van der Waa wrote:
>>> PIE is blocked by upstream because of this bug iirc. [1]
>>> [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21090
> 
>> Plus nobody ever explained why minor bug in testsuite should be
>> a blocker here.
> 
> Because binutils is a vital system component that it is very, very
> important to have working. It's one of those programs whose tests you
> absolutely do not want failing, since you're subsequently using it to
> link, well, *everything*.

Excuse me, are we or are we not a distro which prides itself on the fact
that we live on the bleeding (straight) edge???

Just ask phrik:
10:05:03 PM - eschwartz: archlinux
10:05:05 PM - phrik: Livin' life on the hemorrhaging edge!

I've changed my mind -- we should immediately enable PIE.
:p :p

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Eli Schwartz

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