On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:43:13AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > > I intend to sanitize this in the gcl configure script, as is already > done on an ad-hoc basis for osx. The problem is getting the semantics > right for both gcc and clang interfaces to the linker. With gcc, > *appending* -no-pie to user supplied LDFLAGS works. clang has no such > switch, but does have -pie. Furthermore, on linux, both 'clang -pie > -Wl,-no_pie' and 'clang -Wl,-no_pie' fail, though the latter works on > darwin.
I suspect clang will follow suit with gcc and grow "-fno-pie -no-pie" at some point, but that certainly won't work today. That's why I fixed it in the Debian packaging for now, since only shiny/new versions of GCC have those flags, and you already specify gcc in your rules file. I have to figure out similar configure magic for upstream glibc soon, so if I come up with a good upstreamish solution, I'll recall this convo and let you know, but for now, the debian/rules hack is better than no change (and a constant reminder to fix it right later :P) ... Adam
