Description: Disable PIE for stage1 and stage2
 This is no use for freestanding binaries and causes an explosion in binary
 size.
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2016-10-08

Index: b/configure.ac
===================================================================
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -143,6 +143,28 @@
     if test "x$no_combine_stack_adjustments_flag" = xyes; then
       GRUB_CFLAGS="$GRUB_CFLAGS -fno-combine-stack-adjustments"
     fi
+    # Disable PIE if possible.
+    AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether gcc has -fno-PIE],
+		   no_pie_flag, [
+      saved_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS
+      CFLAGS="-fno-PIE"
+      AC_TRY_COMPILE(, , no_pie_flag=yes, no_pie_flag=no)
+      CFLAGS=$saved_CFLAGS
+    ])
+    if test "x$no_pie_flag" = xyes; then
+      STAGE1_CFLAGS="$STAGE1_CFLAGS -fno-PIE"
+      STAGE2_CFLAGS="$STAGE2_CFLAGS -fno-PIE"
+    fi
+    AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether gcc has -no-pie],
+		   no_pie_linker_flag, [
+      saved_LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS
+      LDFLAGS="-no-pie"
+      AC_TRY_LINK(, , no_pie_linker_flag=yes, no_pie_linker_flag=no)
+      LDFLAGS=$saved_LDFLAGS
+    ])
+    if test "x$no_pie_linker_flag" = xyes; then
+      LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -no-pie"
+    fi
   fi
 fi