https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65351
--- Comment #10 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #9) > Does the following patch: > > --- config/picflag.m4 2013-11-18 09:59:08.420212365 +0100 > +++ config/picflag.m4 2015-03-31 18:36:21.989401000 +0200 > @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ case "${$2}" in > *-*-darwin*) > # PIC is the default on this platform > # Common symbols not allowed in MH_DYLIB files > - $1=-fno-common > + # Cancel any earlier -mdynamic-no-pic, as that makes > + # the code not suitable for shared libraries. > + $1=-fno-common -mno-dynamic-no-pic heh; .. of course the first thing I tried was appending -fPIC here, which doesn't work.. why i didn't then think of this, no clue :) It would be a good idea to check that the -fPIC default gets set correctly for -mdynamic-no-pic -mno-dynamic-no-pic, or alternately just append -fPIC here. Will check which is needed. I notice that there's no use of GCC_PICFLAG by libdecnumber (it just assumes -fPIC) and that several of the libraries have auto-tools with different versions from the default. That aside, I'll look at applying this and regenerating configures where required.