[cups.bugs] Linker failure on amd64 due to -pie

[Michael Sweet]

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Michael!
> 
> I removed .SILENT, thanks for the hint.
> 
> Michael Sweet [2006-01-18 11:16 -0500]:
>>> My current workaround is to disable -fpie with a small patch to
>>> configure, but that's certainly not a final solution. Any idea what
>>> could be wrong? 
>> Does changing this to "-fPIE" work any better?
> 
> -fPIC was used all the time unconditionally, it's (almost) hardcoded
> into config-scripts/cups-compiler.m4. But even if I change that to
> -fPIE, or add -fPIE in addition, it always breaks with the same error.
> 
> So, my current hack of removing -fpie doesn't seem too bad even, since
> -fPIC is still used.

OK, I'm guessing, then, that the GCC -fpie support (or some related
bit in the binutils) still needs some work for AMD64... :(

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