Bug 718054

Summary:	dev-lang/go: consider enabling PIE by default for go toolchain via USE=pie
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) <slyfox>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	William Hubbs <williamh>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-04-18 13:55:31 UTC

sys-devel/gcc[pie] generates PIE binaries by default. gccgo also does.

People occasionally manually inject -buildmode=pie into ebuilds to keep consistent with defaults.

WDYT of making dev-lang/go default to PIE execuatbles as well?

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-04-18 13:58:03 UTC

bug 702598 looks to be similar

Comment 2 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-04-18 16:16:17 UTC

Youa re right! Closing as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 702598 ***