Have added pie support to gdb from Ubuntu's gdb and some patches https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/gdb/6.8-1ubuntu1 Have bump the gentoo patches to 1.3 with pie support.
Created attachment 154235 [details] bump of patchset for gdb dump of gdb patchset with some ubuntu and pie support http://www.ume.nu/~zorry/filer/Gentoo-hardened/portage/distfiles/gdb-6.8-patches-1.3.tar.lzma
Added version of gdb
Created attachment 154247 [details, diff] 1 of 2 pie patch only the pie patches
Created attachment 154249 [details, diff] 2 of 2 pie patch only pie patch
Flipping the maintainer and CC: fields around.. Hardened does not maintain the toolchain itself.
while true, the hardened team should give a thumbs up here and say the patches are OK ...
A second user here tested them and said they worked. I'm all for the idea but am lacking time right now to jump over to focus on gdb. http://marc.info/?t=121226625100005&r=1&w=2
added to gdb-6.8-r1 then