[PING][PATCH][1-3] New configure options that make the compiler use -fPIE and -pie as default option

[H.J. Lu]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:40 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Magnus Granberg <zorry@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> söndag 11 januari 2015 14.29.56 skrev  Magnus Granberg:
>>> söndag 11 januari 2015 03.37.14 skrev  H.J. Lu:
>>> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> > > On 11/01/15 03:52 AM, Daniel Micay wrote:
>>> > >> This branch works well for me. It doesn't automatically turn off the
>>> > >> linker flag when -fno-PIE or -fno-PIC are passed like most of the
>>> > >> wrapper scripts / downstream patches do, but that might not be a
>>> > >> problem
>>> > >> in practice.
>>> >
>>> >  -fno-PIE and -fno-PIC aren't linking options.  We don't turn on PIE with
>>> >
>>> > # gcc -fPIE ....
>>> >
>>> > You need to use
>>> >
>>> > # gcc -pie -fPIE
>>> >
>>> > To turn off PIE, you should use
>>> >
>>> > # gcc -no-pie -fno-PIE
>>> >
>>> > > Er, Thunderbird did a terrible job handling my manual reply (wasn't
>>> > > subscribed to the list). Sorry about that.
>>> > >
>>> > > For clarity, this is about H.J. Lu's branch at:
>>> > >
>>> > > https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/hjl/pie
>>>
>>> It works fine for me but 6 test fails in the testsuite.
>>> Do we realy want to pass -fPIE -fPIC when someone do -fno-PIC or -fno-pic?
>> On the crtstuff do we and --fPIE or should the Makefile handel it?
>> I did let the Makefile handel it.
>
> I will fix them shortly.
>

It is fixed now.

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H.J.