On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Cyd Haselton wrote: > Advance apologies if this question has been asked previously, Google > searches only turned up results for using -fPIE/-fPIC. > > Is it possible to build GCC as a PIE? If so, would it be a matter of > including the -FPIC/-FPIE params for CFLAGS and/or LDFLAGS and running > configure && make, or are there issues I should be aware of (for example, > should I set parameters for cross-building)? > > Background: Android 5.0 requires PIE, which means that upgrading will break > my existing native build environment...unless I can build a PIE GCC first, > then re-build all of my utilities with it. I don't have a ready answer for you, but if I was in a similar situation I'd look how security-oriented distributions that prefer PIE (to give specific examples: Gentoo Hardened profile, Alpine Linux) build their GCC. Hope that helps. Alexander
