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Add WITH_PIE knob to build Position Independent Executables

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Add WITH_PIE knob to build Position Independent Executables

Building binaries as PIE allows the executable itself to be loaded at a
random address when ASLR is enabled (not just its shared libraries).

With this change PIE objects have a .pieo extension and INTERNALLIB
libraries libXXX_pie.a.

MK_PIE is disabled for some kerberos5 tools, Clang, and Subversion, as
they explicitly reference .a libraries in their Makefiles. These can
be addressed on an individual basis later. MK_PIE is also disabled for
rtld-elf because it is already position-independent using bespoke
Makefile rules.

Currently only dynamically linked binaries will be built as PIE.

Discussed with: dim
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18423

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kib
Differential Revision
D18423: Prototype WITH_PIE knob
Parents
rS344178: Merge ^/head r343956 through r344177.
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