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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, vr_qemu@t-online.de, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] meson: remove -no-pie linker flag
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 09:18:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZGx22AySUhoZZuW1@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABgObfa+EG62MV-9xG7dtxiXj5ocosXS8kNneAoM_kTbmo0CbA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 10:02:51AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 10:00 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I'm curious why we need to do anything ?  I would have thought that meson
> > should handle 'b_pie' itself, passing the right args to $CC that it feels
> > are appropriate. I don't recall seeing other apps using meson trying to
> > handle b_pie logic - what's special about QEMU ? IOW, is it possible to
> > delete this entire b_pie condition and thus avoid worrying about this
> > problem ?
> 
> The issue is that Meson only has "enable PIE" or "leave PIE to the
> compiler default", while QEMU also has "disable PIE"---which is the
> messy one.

Does QEMU actually need "disable PIE" ? It existed in configure of
course, is there a reason we need to continue to support it in meson ?

With regards,
Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-23  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-22  8:08 [PATCH] meson: remove -no-pie linker flag Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-22  8:19 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-05-22 14:39 ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-23  7:23   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-22 15:54 ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-23  7:52   ` Michael Tokarev
2023-05-23  5:57 ` Volker Rümelin
2023-05-23  8:00 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-05-23  8:02   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-23  8:18     ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2023-05-23 11:55       ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-23 13:14       ` Richard Henderson

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