Implement disable_pie for all executables.

build/common.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # IMPORTANT:
 # Please don't directly include this file if you are building via gyp_chromium,
 # since gyp_chromium is automatically forcing its inclusion.
 {
   # Variables expected to be overriden on the GYP command line (-D) or by
   # ~/.gyp/include.gypi.
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     'configuration_policy%': '<(configuration_policy)',
     'safe_browsing%': '<(safe_browsing)',
     'clang_use_chrome_plugins%': '<(clang_use_chrome_plugins)',
     'asan%': '<(asan)',
     'enable_register_protocol_handler%': '<(enable_register_protocol_handler)',
     'enable_smooth_scrolling%': '<(enable_smooth_scrolling)',
     'enable_web_intents%': '<(enable_web_intents)',
     # Whether to build for Wayland display server
     'use_wayland%': 0,
 
+    # Default to enabled PIE; this is important for ASLR but we need to be
+    # able to turn it off for remote debugging on Chromium OS
+    'linux_disable_pie%': 0,
+
     # The release channel that this build targets. This is used to restrict
     # channel-specific build options, like which installer packages to create.
     # The default is 'all', which does no channel-specific filtering.
     'channel%': 'all',
 
     # Override chromium_mac_pch and set it to 0 to suppress the use of
     # precompiled headers on the Mac.  Prefix header injection may still be
     # used, but prefix headers will not be precompiled.  This is useful when
     # using distcc to distribute a build to compile slaves that don't
     # share the same compiler executable as the system driving the compilation,
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                   }],
                 ],
               }],
             ],
           }],
           ['linux_fpic==1', {
             'cflags': [
               '-fPIC',
             ],
           }],
+          # TODO(rkc): Currently building Chrome with the PIE flag causes
+          # remote debugging to break (remote debugger does not get correct
+          # section header offsets hence causing all symbol handling to go
+          # kaboom). See crosbug.com/15266
+          # Remove this flag once this issue is fixed.
+          ['linux_disable_pie==1', {
+            'target_conditions': [
+              ['_type=="executable"', {
+                'ldflags': [
+                  '-nopie',
+                ],
+              }],
+            ],
+          }],
           ['sysroot!=""', {
             'target_conditions': [
               ['_toolset=="target"', {
                 'cflags': [
                   '--sysroot=<(sysroot)',
                 ],
                 'ldflags': [
                   '--sysroot=<(sysroot)',
                 ],
               }]]
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     # settings in target dicts.  SYMROOT is a special case, because many other
     # Xcode variables depend on it, including variables such as
     # PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR.  When a source group corresponding to something
     # like PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR is added to a project, in order for the
     # files to appear (when present) in the UI as actual files and not red
     # red "missing file" proxies, the correct path to PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR,
     # and therefore SYMROOT, needs to be set at the project level.
     'SYMROOT': '<(DEPTH)/xcodebuild',
   },
 }