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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 10:02:51AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.

Does QEMU actually need "disable PIE" ? It existed in configure of
course, is there a reason we need to continue to support it in meson ?

With regards,
Daniel
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