On 26 Jan 2015, at 14:13, Rainer Orth wrote: > FX <fxcoud...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> The default BOOT_CFLAGS are: -O2 -g -mdynamic-no-pic >>> the libiberty pic build appends: -fno-common (and not even -fPIC) [NB >>> -fPIC _won't_ override -mdynamic-no-pic, so that's not a simple way out] >>> This means that the PIC library is being built with non-pic relocs. >> >> config/mh-darwin says that -mdynamic-no-pic is there because it “speeds >> compiles by 3-5%”. I don’t think we care about speed when the bootstrap >> fails, so can we remove it altogether? > > Darwin/i686 still doesn't bootstrap without this patch, I believe. > Shouldn't it be applied to trunk before GCC 5 ships, rather than leaving > that target broken?
I'll try and post a patch to fix it properly this week.. Iain
