Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark and hardening flags
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:04:33 -0700
On 9/24/15 6:51 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> On 09/24/2015 05:04 AM, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
>> Hi Balint
>>
>> No a problem for me to add PIE on Wireshark
>> But no need to check if lib (Qt) use also PIE ?
> 
> We already do--at least with autofoo (cmake seems to pick up the PIE flags
> from Qt's config directly).

It looks like autofoo only enables PIE for dumpcap. Is there a reason we
shouldn't enable it for all of our executables, similar to Balint's change?

(And +1 from me on hardening flags.)