On Wed, 10 May 2017 01:40:36 +0200
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2017, 00:47:30 CEST schrieb Alexis Ballier:
> > On Tue, 9 May 2017 23:18:20 +0200 Hanno Böck <ha...@gentoo.org>
> > wrote:  
> > > I really think it's about time that pie becomes the default in
> > > Gentoo.  
> > 
> > For a transition we can probably build everything with -fPIE but not
> > link with -pie. If we want that to happen fast, gcc-6 might do that
> > and gcc-7 add the -pie option.  
> 
> What do we gain by that?
> 
> Wouldn't we need to rebuild all the static archives afterwards again
> anyway, just to make sure they have been rebuilt?
> 

yep we wouldn't gain much

considering gcc unmasks timings, the idea was to have enough time to
pass for the need to rebuild to be gone

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