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diff --git a/open_issues/gcc/pie.mdwn b/open_issues/gcc/pie.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a4598d1e --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/gcc/pie.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Position-Independent Executables"]] + +[[!tag open_issue_gcc]] + + +# IRC, freenode, #debian-hurd, 2012-11-08 + + <pinotree> tschwinge: i'm not totally sure, but it seems the pie options + for gcc/ld are causing issues + <pinotree> namely, producing executables that sigsegv straight away + <tschwinge> pinotree: OK, I do remember some issues about these, too. + <tschwinge> Also for -pg. + <tschwinge> These have in common that they use different crt*.o files for + linking. + <tschwinge> Might well be there's some bugs there. + <pinotree> one way is to try the w3m debian build: the current build + configuration enables also pie, which in turns makes an helper executable + (mktable) sigsegv when invoked + <pinotree> if «,-pie» is appended to the DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS variable + in debian/rules, pie is not added and the resulting mktable runs + correctly + + +## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-11-09 + + <pinotree> youpi: ah, as i noted to tschwinge earlier, it seems -fPIE -pie + miscompile stuff + <youpi> uh + <pinotree> this causes the w3m build failure and (indirectly, due to elinks + built with -pie) aptitude |