[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Thu Sep 22 17:36:33 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:06:51PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
> Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
> 
> ---
> 
> The section of the Packaging Guidelines regarding Compiler Flags has
> been updated and improved, most notably, to document handling of PIE
> enabled packages.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Compiler_flags

"This adds -fPIC (if -fPIE is not already present) to the compiler flags, and
adds -z now to the linker flags. "

That should be ... "adds -fPIE (if -fPIC is not already present)" ...
I'd say.  At least I hope that's what the spec change does, the initial
version did that.

	Jakub


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