Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’)

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:50:03 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > updating control file, adding version constraints with versions not in the > > archive anymore is kind of useless, speaking about Buster we won't have suc > gcc versions anymore since at least two

Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’)

Hello, >I'm not sure I understand this response. > >When you say "gcc-specific", are you saying that the Debian Haskell package >supports compilers other than gcc? It appears to me that it specifically >requires gcc. I mean, that the flag has been added by gcc, and a lot of programs in

Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’)

> I guess it is better to patch older gccs to understand such flag and give > no-op in this case. > There is no point in: > 1) fixing the whole archive for a gcc-specific change > 2) using ghc with older, unsupported compilers. I'm not sure I understand this response. When you say "gcc-specific",