Re: rfe: Direct -fPIE support

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Tuesday 2008-12-09 19:50, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> >Just using
>> >  ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE
>> >
>> >should work fine, or put it in target_CFLAGS if you only want some
>> >targets to be PIE.  Be sure to use recent Libtool, so that libraries
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >get the right flags.
>> 
>> libtool version is 1.5.26. I fear just adding CFLAGS=-fPIE is not
>> going to cut it:
>
>Let me repeat my above suggestion: Be sure to use recent Libtool.
>Basic PIE support was only added in 2.2, according to libtool/NEWS.

Thanks for the hint, tried that and worked. I was not aware of the
2.x series at all, but it seems like it has been around for a long
time (distros not updating = aargh).