Re: [PATCH] meson: remove -no-pie linker flag

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 10:00 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm curious why we need to do anything ?  I would have thought that meson
> should handle 'b_pie' itself, passing the right args to $CC that it feels
> are appropriate. I don't recall seeing other apps using meson trying to
> handle b_pie logic - what's special about QEMU ? IOW, is it possible to
> delete this entire b_pie condition and thus avoid worrying about this
> problem ?

The issue is that Meson only has "enable PIE" or "leave PIE to the
compiler default", while QEMU also has "disable PIE"---which is the
messy one.

Paolo