Can the GCC toolchain be built AS a PIE?

[Cyd Haselton]

Is this a FAQ?  Or is the answer obvious?

On June 11, 2015 7:17:11 AM CDT, Cyd Haselton <chaselton@gmail.com> wrote:
>Advance apologies if this question has been asked previously, Google
>searches only turned up results for using -fPIE/-fPIC.
>
>Is it possible to build GCC as a PIE? If so, would it be a matter of
>including the -FPIC/-FPIE params for CFLAGS and/or LDFLAGS and running
>configure && make, or are there issues I should be aware of (for
>example, should I set parameters for cross-building)?
>
>Background: Android 5.0 requires PIE, which means that upgrading will
>break my existing native build environment...unless I can build a PIE
>GCC first, then re-build all of my utilities with it.