On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:45:02PM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:05:43PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> >   RPM Package Manager, CVS Repository
> >   http://rpm5.org/cvs/
> >   ____________________________________________________________________________
> > 
> >   Server: rpm5.org                         Name:   Ralf S. Engelschall
> >   Root:   /v/rpm/cvs                       Email:  rse@rpm5.org
> >   Module: rpm                              Date:   14-Jun-2007 19:05:43
> >   Branch: HEAD                             Handle: 2007061418054300
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     rpm                     configure.ac
> > 
> >   Log:
> >     the GCC -pie option does not work on all platforms where GCC is
> >     available. The resulting executables will are linked but cannot be
> >     executed (e.g. under FreeBSD). I currently don't know why -pie is used
> >     here in RPM, so let's keep it but at least enable it under Linux only
> 
> I suppose that runtime check for -fpie/-pie is better.
> For example, suitable check could be taken from Linux-PAM's configure.in:
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git;a=blob_plain;f=Linux-PAM/configue.in;hb=cvs

Err, correct link is
http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git;a=blob_plain;f=Linux-PAM/configure.in;hb=cvs


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