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Description of problem:

The grub2-ppc64le-modules and grub2-pc-modules ship files on which annocheck reports that they were not built with expected compiler flags.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

grub2-ppc64le-modules-2.06~rc1-8.el9.noarch
grub2-pc-modules-2.06~rc1-8.el9.noarch

How reproducible:

Deterministic, on ppc64le and x86_64.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ql grub2-*-modules | xargs annocheck --skip-all --test-stack-prot --test-pic --test-pie --verbose | grep FAIL:

Actual results:

Hardened: /usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/kernel.img: FAIL: pie test because not linked with -Wl,-pie 
Hardened: /usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/kernel.exec: FAIL: pie test because not linked with -Wl,-pie 

Hardened: /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/lnxboot.image: FAIL: pie test because not linked with -Wl,-pie 
Hardened: /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img: FAIL: pie test because not linked with -Wl,-pie 
Hardened: /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.exec: FAIL: pie test because not linked with -Wl,-pie 

Expected results:

No FAIL lines reported.

Additional info:

Starting with grub2-ppc64le-2.06-16.el9.ppc64le we see /usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/core.elf giving the same annocheck fail as well.

This is a bootloader - it doesn't make sense for it to be position-indepdendent.