[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#509135: please enable PIE during configure

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:51:28AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 2:3.2.5-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty ubuntu-patch

> Hello!  Please enable PIE support in the build, since this is correctly
> handled in the upstream build scripts (and is an upstream default).
> This gains a measure of additional security on kernels that randomize
> relocatable program segments.

Bug #346416 is the reason this was disabled in the first place.  Does gdb
handle PIE better these days?

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