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

[Kenshi Muto]

Hi,

At Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:49:26 -0500,
Michael Sweet wrote:
> > 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... :(

At least on Debian GNU/Linux, -fpie makes a build failure on some
architectures such as sparc, arm, and mips.
One of Debian libc maintainers told me -fpie of Debian gcc/binutils
didn't work as same as RedHat Linux.

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org