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24.4; configure script should disable PIE on all platforms

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From: Adam Sampson <ats <at> offog.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4; configure script should disable PIE on all platforms
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 23:41:37 +0100

Dear Emacs maintainers,

In the configure script for Emacs 24.4, position-independent executable
support is currently explicitly disabled for temacs on Darwin and
OpenBSD by adding options (-fno-pie, -nopie) to LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS.

However, it's possible to have GCC configured to use PIE by default on
other platforms -- for example, Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo provide
"hardened" GCC configurations. If you try to build Emacs with a
PIE-ified GCC, temacs will segfault; you need to explicitly pass the
no-pie options to configure.

I ran into this on my GARstow system, but here's an example of a Gentoo
user being tripped up by the same thing:
  https://bugs.gentoo.org/494316

Would it be possible for the configure script to add the -fno-pie/-nopie
options by default to LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS, if they're accepted by
the toolchain? That way you could build Emacs with a PIE-ified GCC
without special treatment, and you wouldn't need the special cases for
Darwin and OpenBSD.

Thanks,
Adam

In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.25)
 of 2014-10-20 on gar-amd64
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11600000
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/gar --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
 --sharedstatedir=/var/com --with-x-toolkit=gtk2 --without-gconf
 --with-gameuser=_garstow_no_such_user CFLAGS= CPPFLAGS= LDFLAGS='

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
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  global-font-lock-mode: t
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  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  global-visual-line-mode: t
  visual-line-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x 1 M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
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-- 
Adam Sampson <ats <at> offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>

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