Contributed by tbert on from the still-not-better-than-eel-pie dept.
After much work by Pascal Stumpf (pascal@) and Mark Kettenis (kettenis@), Kurt Miller (kurt@), and no doubt others whose contributions were both significant and appreciated, static binaries can now be compiled as position-independent executables:
New snapshots for a few architectures use static PIE binaries in /bin, /sbin (and a handful in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin as well). (amd64 and sparc64 leading the way, the rest will follow) This is yet another non-trivial conversion. Surely some will try to use the instructions in current.html to build through this hump manually. And surely some will fail, since it is a bit tricky. Please don't bother the lists in that case. If in doubt -- upgrade using a snapshot. Thanks.
As Theo says, snapshot upgrades to get over the hurdle; it would behoove us to do some testing to ensure no bugs were introduced.
As always, a great deal of thanks goes to those who work to improve OpenBSD!
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By Sebastian Rother (91.66.45.132) on
Thanks to anybody who made it possible!