On OpenBSD, PIE is activated by default on architectures that support it. --- Makefile.in.orig Sun Jul 19 20:56:42 2015 +++ Makefile.in Sun Jul 19 20:56:48 2015 @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ top_build_prefix = @top_build_prefix@ top_builddir = @top_builddir@ top_srcdir = @top_srcdir@ vmpsd_SOURCES = vmpsd.c daemon.c data.c log.c parser.c vqp.c data.h log.h vqp.h external.c external.h -vmpsd_CFLAGS = -DSYSCONFDIR="\"${sysconfdir}\"" -fPIE -pie -Wall +vmpsd_CFLAGS = -DSYSCONFDIR="\"${sysconfdir}\"" -Wall man_MANS = vmpsd.1 sysconf_DATA = vlan.db all: config.h