Hi. On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:50:59 +0000 (UTC) Neoklis Kyriazis <nkcy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have recently completed my first installation of Debian (stretch) > and I am compiling some apps from source. I have noticed that filers > show binaries produce by gcc as being shared library objects instead > of just ELF executables. > > I eventually, by searching, I worked around this by specifying the > > -no-pie flag in CFLAGS but I would like to know if gcc is by default > set up to produce > position independent binaries or if I have not set up things correctly. They patched gcc to produce PIE by default - and that's one of Debian stretch release goals. See: https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/PIEByDefaultTransition Reco
