Comment # 8
on bug 11643
from Guy Harris
Is there some compelling reason to build *everything* position-independent?
With autotools, we only build dumpcap PIE, as it's the only software running
with elevated privileges. (Hopefully I can get libpcap to the point where the
only libpcap code that needs to run with elevated privileges runs in a separate
program connected to the process using libpcap over a UNIX-domain socket, so
programs using libpcap *don't* need to run with elevated privileges
themselves.)
dumpcap doesn't use Qt, so if we only build it PIE, and don't build anything
else PIE, maybe this whole mess can be avoided. (Doing so seems to fix the
problem on my Ubuntu 15.10 VM.)
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