Re: Disabling -pie when linking?

2013-01-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 00:13 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Sun 20 Jan 2013 18:18:16 +0100, a écrit : > > A recent problem popping up is that executables using the -pie flag when > > linking segfaults when starting up. Examples are mktable in w3m > > It doesn't seem so simple. I

fakeroot

2013-01-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Unfortunately I inverted the way in my comment, but my latest patch to fakeroot fixes an old issue with it: the server loop would then deallocate ports several times, leading to all kinds of awful issues. Using it for daily work however doesn't seem possible yes, there seem to be other bug

Re: Disabling -pie when linking?

2013-01-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Sun 20 Jan 2013 18:18:16 +0100, a écrit : > A recent problem popping up is that executables using the -pie flag when > linking segfaults when starting up. Examples are mktable in w3m It doesn't seem so simple. I've tried building a small program with -pie, and it does work. I've

Re: Talk at fosdem

2013-01-28 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:57:49PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I'll surely reuse some of the material from my GHM talk > (http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/samuel-thibault-hurd.pdf) > but people might have ideas about some things to add, notably the nifty > features? I'd also mention th