Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017, 04:10:13 CEST schrieb Duncan: > One thing isn't clear here. Is this sequence necessary due to the > profile switch itself, because the /profile/ enables PIE by default, or > is it gcc-6.4+ that enables PIE, and the profile simply forces the PIE > default by forcing gcc-6.4+?
Switching the profile changes the settings for building gcc (it switches a use- flag from forced-off to forced-on). A gcc-6 built with the 17.0 profiles will produce PIE executables by default, a gcc-6 built with the 13.0 profiles will not. I've added this paragraph: # Switching the profile modifies the settings of GCC 6 to generate # PIE executables by default; thus, you need to do the rebuilds # even if you already used GCC 6 beforehand. > The answer makes a big difference to those already on gcc-6.4+ and who > presumably already did an empty-tree rebuild of @world when upgrading to > it, That's really not necessary anymore. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
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