Don't force use of -fPIE for the dbus-daemon if apparently supported

It's a minor security benefit, but not automatically beneficial (it
enables ASLR, but breaks prelinking, some buggy toolchains, and some gdb
versions). Distributions who know their infrastructure works well can
enable it just as easily via

    ./configure CFLAGS="-fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie"

without extra support from us, and that's a generic solution applicable to
many packages.

Similarly, don't force libdbus and libdbus-internal to be PIC: libtool
knows better than we do whether that's necessary/beneficial on a
particular platform.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16621
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27215
Bug-NB: NB#171940
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>

diff --git a/bus/Makefile.am b/bus/Makefile.am
index 5cba22b..dfb3bc3 100644 (file)
--- a/bus/Makefile.am
+++ b/bus/Makefile.am
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 configdir=$(sysconfdir)/dbus-1
 dbus_daemon_execdir = $(DBUS_DAEMONDIR)
 
-INCLUDES=-I$(top_srcdir) $(DBUS_BUS_CFLAGS) @PIE_CFLAGS@               \
-       -DDBUS_SYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\""$(configdir)/system.conf"\"        \
+INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir) \
+       $(DBUS_BUS_CFLAGS) \
+       -DDBUS_SYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\""$(configdir)/system.conf"\" \
        -DDBUS_COMPILATION
 
 EFENCE=
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ dbus_daemon_LDADD=                                    \
        $(EFENCE)                                       \
        $(DBUS_BUS_LIBS)
 
-dbus_daemon_LDFLAGS=@R_DYNAMIC_LDFLAG@ @SECTION_LDFLAGS@ @PIE_LDFLAGS@
+dbus_daemon_LDFLAGS=@R_DYNAMIC_LDFLAG@ @SECTION_LDFLAGS@
 
 LAUNCH_HELPER_SOURCES=                         \
        $(XML_SOURCES)                          \

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 075b583..459133c 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1224,30 +1224,6 @@ dnl block.
      ;;
   esac
 
-  case " $CFLAGS " in
-  *[\ \        ]-fPIC[\ \      ]*) ;;
-  *) if test x$dbus_win = xno && cc_supports_flag -fPIC; then
-        PIC_CFLAGS="-fPIC"
-        if ld_supports_flag -z,relro; then
-           PIC_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,relro"
-        fi
-     fi
-     ;;
-  esac
-
-  case " $CFLAGS " in
-  *[\ \        ]-fPIE[\ \      ]*) ;;
-  *) if test x$dbus_win = xno && cc_supports_flag -fPIE; then
-        PIE_CFLAGS="-fPIE"
-        if ld_supports_flag -z,relro; then
-           PIE_LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
-        else
-           PIE_LDFLAGS="-pie"
-        fi
-     fi
-     ;;
-  esac
-
   ### Disabled warnings, and compiler flag overrides
 
   # Let's just ignore unused for now
@@ -1303,11 +1279,6 @@ dnl block.
   fi
 fi]
 
-AC_SUBST(PIC_CFLAGS)
-AC_SUBST(PIC_LDFLAGS)
-AC_SUBST(PIE_CFLAGS)
-AC_SUBST(PIE_LDFLAGS)
-
 if ld_supports_flag --gc-sections; then
   SECTION_LDFLAGS="-Wl,--gc-sections $SECTION_LDFLAGS"
   CFLAGS="-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections $CFLAGS"

diff --git a/dbus/Makefile.am b/dbus/Makefile.am
index 740def3..2e6ca1d 100644 (file)
--- a/dbus/Makefile.am
+++ b/dbus/Makefile.am
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 
 configdir=$(sysconfdir)/dbus-1
 
-INCLUDES=-I$(top_builddir) -I$(top_srcdir) $(DBUS_CLIENT_CFLAGS) @PIC_CFLAGS@ -DDBUS_COMPILATION       \
-       -DDBUS_MACHINE_UUID_FILE=\""$(localstatedir)/lib/dbus/machine-id"\"             \
-       -DDBUS_SYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\""$(configdir)/system.conf"\"                        \
+INCLUDES = -I$(top_builddir) -I$(top_srcdir) \
+       $(DBUS_CLIENT_CFLAGS) \
+       -DDBUS_COMPILATION \
+       -DDBUS_MACHINE_UUID_FILE=\""$(localstatedir)/lib/dbus/machine-id"\" \
+       -DDBUS_SYSTEM_CONFIG_FILE=\""$(configdir)/system.conf"\" \
        -DDBUS_SESSION_CONFIG_FILE=\""$(configdir)/session.conf"\"
 
 dbusincludedir=$(includedir)/dbus-1.0/dbus
@@ -261,7 +263,7 @@ noinst_LTLIBRARIES=libdbus-internal.la
 
 libdbus_1_la_CPPFLAGS= -Ddbus_1_EXPORTS
 libdbus_1_la_LIBADD= $(DBUS_CLIENT_LIBS)
-libdbus_1_la_LDFLAGS= $(export_symbols) -version-info $(LT_CURRENT):$(LT_REVISION):$(LT_AGE) -no-undefined @R_DYNAMIC_LDFLAG@ @PIC_LDFLAGS@
+libdbus_1_la_LDFLAGS= $(export_symbols) -version-info $(LT_CURRENT):$(LT_REVISION):$(LT_AGE) -no-undefined @R_DYNAMIC_LDFLAG@
 
 libdbus_internal_la_CPPFLAGS = -DDBUS_STATIC_BUILD
 libdbus_internal_la_LIBADD=$(DBUS_CLIENT_LIBS)