[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#837579: user-mode-linux: FTBFS with bindnow and PIE enabled

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 22:28 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> > I just built locally with your patches applied. It fixes the build. But
> lintian
> > still complains about hardening flags.
> >
> > I: user-mode-linux: hardening-no-pie usr/bin/linux.uml
> > W: user-mode-linux: hardening-no-relro usr/bin/linux.uml
> > I: user-mode-linux: hardening-no-bindnow usr/bin/linux.uml
> 
> It is expected, since PIE is still not used.
> 
> I tried using -fPIE and -fPIC to allow PIE but kernel mode code did
> not allow those
> thus I believe the proposed patch is the way to go, disabling PIE for
> UML for now.

So I'm confused. The bug report is about FTBFS because bindnow and PIE were
enabled.

Should the bug report be closed with an exception for UML ?
 
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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