Am 02.04.2014 17:10, schrieb Otto Kekäläinen:
I noticed that the MySQL packages in Debian have PIC stuff in their alternative build arguments, see http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mysql/mysql-5.6.git;a=blob;f=debian/... http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mysql/mysql-5.5.git;a=blob;f=debian/...
Anybody here who understands deeply the build arguments who could say if having these PIC additions is desirable?
surely because you want the result below these days http://tk-blog.blogspot.co.at/2009/02/relro-not-so-well-known-memory.html * PIC * Full RELRO [root@rh:~]$ /usr/bin/hardening-check /usr/libexec/mysqld /usr/libexec/mysqld: Position Independent Executable: yes Stack protected: yes Fortify Source functions: yes (some protected functions found) Read-only relocations: yes Immediate binding: yes