If have searched for GLIBCPIE within all meta-files, but it seems that GLIBCPIE is already empty.<br /><br />
<div><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">varga-r@ubuntu:~/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x$ grep -rnI "GLIBCPIE"</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">poky/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc:9:# If static PIE is known to work well, GLIBCPIE="--enable-static-pie" can be set</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">poky/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc:34:GLIBCPIE_powerpc = ""</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.29.bb:73:GLIBCPIE ??= ""</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.29.bb:89:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ${GLIBCPIE} \</span><br /><br />Then I searched for "pie" within the generated glibc sources... and found many search results including "<strong>-pie</strong>" or "<strong>-fpie</strong>" as passed compiler parameter for various files (note that I pasted two lines only!):</div>
<div><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">varga-r@ubuntu:~/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x$ grep -rnI "pie" build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc<br />&lt;snip&gt;</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">...</span><br />
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<div><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">...</span><br />
<div><span style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/temp/log.do_compile.90521:14335:arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc&nbsp; -mthumb -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=hard -mcpu=cortex-a9&nbsp; --sysroot=/home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/recipe-sysroot res_hconf.c -c -std=gnu11 -fgnu89-inline&nbsp; -O2 -pipe -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fmacro-prefix-map=/home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0=/usr/src/debug/glibc/2.29-r0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0=/usr/src/debug/glibc/2.29-r0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/recipe-sysroot= -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/recipe-sysroot-native= -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Werror -fmerge-all-constants -frounding-math -fno-stack-protector -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -fmath-errno -DHAVE_EPOLL -DHAVE_INOTIFY -DHAVE_NETLINK&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>-fpie</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-I../include -I/home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/nscd&nbsp; -I/home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/arm/nptl&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/include -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/nptl&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/pthread&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/gnu&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/unix/inet&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/unix/arm&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/unix&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/posix&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/arm/armv7&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/arm/armv6t2&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/arm/armv6&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/arm/include -I../sysdeps/arm&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/ieee754&nbsp; -I../sysdeps/generic&nbsp; -I.. -I../libio -I. -nostdinc -isystem /home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/../../lib/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/8.3.0/include -isystem /home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/../../lib/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/8.3.0/include-fixed -isystem /home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/include&nbsp; -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include /home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/libc-modules.h -DMODULE_NAME=nscd -include ../include/libc-symbols.h&nbsp; -DPIC -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2&nbsp; &nbsp; -DTOP_NAMESPACE=glibc -o /home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/nscd/res_hconf.o -MD -MP -MF /home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/nscd/res_hconf.o.dt -MT /home/varga-r/projects/yocto-tq-mba6x/build/tmp/work/cortexa9t2hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.29-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/nscd/res_hconf.o</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier_newregular, courier;">...<br />&lt;/snip&gt;</div>
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<br />I am not sure, if this is relevant... just in case.<br /><br /><br /><br />Thanks for your support.<br /><br />-- <br />Rob