[Bug other/78109] ld with -pie creates a shared library instead of an executable

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78109

Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #2 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
>None of those not-really-executables can be started from the file explorer by double-clicking but they can be started from a terminal.

That is a bug in the file explorer rather than anything else.  If the program
is marked as executable in the file system the kernel will try to detect which
file format it is (but not executable vs shared library though) and use the elf
loader that way.