[oe-commits] [openembedded-core] 02/03: security_flags: disable static PIE in glibc

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commit 5f64946b8740a5d944f48ec430470265703bfe5e
Author: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
AuthorDate: Mon May 14 13:02:11 2018 +0100

    security_flags: disable static PIE in glibc
    
    Static PIE doesn't work entirely right in GCC 7, for example ldconfig on ARM
    with the flags enabled will something segfault during initialisation.
    
    To mitigate this until we have GCC 8 integrated, don't enable static PIE.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
index d66dd57..aaeca69 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # in the DISTRO="poky-lsb" configuration.
 
 GCCPIE ?= "--enable-default-pie"
-GLIBCPIE ?= "--enable-static-pie"
+# If static PIE is known to work well, GLIBCPIE="--enable-static-pie" can be set
 
 # _FORTIFY_SOURCE requires -O1 or higher, so disable in debug builds as they use
 # -O0 which then results in a compiler warning.

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