Arch Linux

Description:

There was intent to do this before, see https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-October/028405.html but it stalled. Now with new maintainer on board we could make it finally happen.

Debian and Alpine distributions enabled this already so we can use their effort as a guidance. Here are buildlog from official Debian package https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=binutils&ver=2.28-3&arch=amd64 and Alpine PKGBUILD https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/gcc/APKBUILD?h=master .

There are potential issues with binutils package which were reported upstream here https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21090 . I don't think upstream see this as something serious. We can consult again with Debian buildlog https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=binutils&ver=2.28-3&arch=amd64 and Alpine PKGBUILD https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/binutils/APKBUILD?h=master . Our new maintainer as a fellow Alpinist probably has more knowledge on that matter.

Enabling PIE is very important from security perspective as it enable use of ASLR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization