[Buildroot] [PATCH] quagga: disable PIE on ARC

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 07/10/15 15:08, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:21:02 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
>>  What I mean is that we patch gcc and only support the pie option if that magic
>> environment variable is set.
>>
>>  But looking at the source, that's not going to be easy since the whole command
>> line parsing is abstracted in a way that makes it difficult to hack something
>> like that.
>>
>>  Perhaps another solution is that we disable -pie in the spec file, and pass an
>> alternative spec file which does have pie support in U-Boot:
>>
>> UBOOT_MAKE_OPTS += \
>> 	CC="$(TARGET_CC) -specs=path-to-specfile-with-pie"
> 
> In the end, this seems quite complicated. Not that many packages try to
> build their executables as PIE, so maybe handling that on a per-package
> basis is easier / less hacky.

 Less hacky for sure.

 And at this point probably also easier, since probably most of them have
already been handled.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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