tst-prelink fails when built with -fPIC

[Stefan Liebler]

On 11/25/2016 07:15 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-11-25 17:20, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> You are correct it's only -fPIE. Now using either -fno-PIE or -fno-PIC
> makes the tst-prelink to pass. But -fno-PIE is the correct option here.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Indeed. I have already send a patch for x86-64, I am currently testing a
> patch for s390.
> 
> Aurelien
> 

Are there any news for this?

Bye.
Stefan