[hardening-discuss] Bug#548250: Bug#548250: hardening-wrapper: Disable PIE on mips.

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:21:47PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:04:39PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > mips and mipsel have a problem with the PIE options.  As more and
> > more packages seems to be starting to use hardening-wrapper, mips
> > gets more issues.  Could you please disable PIE on them?
> 
> Certainly, that's no problem; we already disable for many other
> architectures as well.
> 
> Is there any indication of what the source of the problem is?  Compiler,
> loader, kernel?

I have no idea, but it's been reassigned from the compiler to the
linker.


Kurt