Hi, >From the news I did everything to switch to the 17th profile EXCEPT emerge -e @world.
One application which was recompiled was gcc-7.20. >From my undertsand/point of view gcc now has to have the PIE-feature gcc-bin/7.2.0>l total 6676 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2017-12-02 16:36 c++ -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2017-12-02 16:36 cpp -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-cpp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2017-12-02 16:36 g++ -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2017-12-02 16:36 gcc -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 26896 2017-12-02 16:36 gcc-ar -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 26896 2017-12-02 16:36 gcc-nm -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 26896 2017-12-02 16:36 gcc-ranlib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-12-02 16:36 gcov -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcov -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 495400 2017-12-02 16:36 gcov-dump -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 515944 2017-12-02 16:36 gcov-tool lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2017-12-02 16:36 gfortran -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gfortran -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1002192 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 998096 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-cpp -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1002192 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 998096 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-7.2.0 -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 26896 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-ar -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 26896 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-nm -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 26896 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-ranlib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 639312 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcov -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1002192 2017-12-02 16:36 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gfortran solfire:gcc-bin/7.2.0>checksec --file x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++ RELRO STACK CANARY NX PIE RPATH RUNPATH FORTIFY Fortified Fortifiable FILE Partial RELRO Canary found NX enabled No PIE No RPATH No RUNPATH Yes 8 21 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++ So...No PIE it says. /root #>eselect profile show Current /etc/portage/make.profile symlink: default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib Before I start the rebuild of 2000++ packages ... Is this all correct up to this point? Cheers Meino