On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 05:37:06AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:37:18AM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > > > The current policy says: > > > "As to the static libraries, the common case is not to have relocatable > > > code" > > > > > > As of gcc-6 version 6.2.0-7 this is factually wrong, because the compiler > > > enables PIE by default, which means it produces relocatable code. > > > This should definitely be updated to reflect reality. > > > > It's not that simple. The compiler enables PIE by default only: > > * if you use "gcc" or "gcc-6". gcc-5, clang, even gcc-snapshot still > > default to non-PIE. > > The intention is that gcc-6 will be the only gcc version in stretch.
It needs to be able to compile the kernel correctly, first. Which it might not be able to right now (gcc 6.2.0), if one goes by code generation issues reported in LKML (for other distros). Hopefully it will be fixed upstream by the time stretch is out, but it *is* a current concern. Also, the upstream kernel source needs to be fixed to deal with PIE enabled by default (it is highly allergic to that). This is already ongoing AFAIK. -- Henrique Holschuh
