On Monday 18 April 2005 05:04 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Monday 18 April 2005 22:50, John Huttley wrote:
> > I have been compiling everything recently with pic and pie.
> > I thought this would be a prerequisite for effective use of "prelink".
>
> It's a prerequisite for prelinking shared libraries, afaik.

correct

> It's not needed for executables, so this shouldn't be a problem.

executables are not shared objects so you do not build them with PIC (this of 
course does not cover hardened usage of PIC/PIE)
-mike

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