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Re: tst-prelink fails when built with -fPIC


On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Debian builds gcc 6.2 with --enable-default-pie, which correspond to
> always passing -pie -fPIE -fPIC. This causes the tst-prelink to fail on

Why -fPIC?  It's documented as -fPIE -pie, *not* -fPIC.

Now, -fPIE ends up with glibc building with -DPIC, and in some cases that 
may break things if code isn't ready for PIC building outside shared 
libraries.  Those cases can be fixed individually.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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