718054 – dev-lang/go: consider enabling PIE by default for go toolchain via USE=pie

Bug 718054 - dev-lang/go: consider enabling PIE by default for go toolchain via USE=pie

Summary: dev-lang/go: consider enabling PIE by default for go toolchain via USE=pie

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 702598

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	William Hubbs

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Reported:	2020-04-18 13:55 UTC by Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED)
Modified:	2020-04-18 16:16 UTC (History)
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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 ***