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

[Michael Sweet]

Kenshi Muto wrote:
> 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.

Oh, lovely.  I'll make it a configure option (--enable-pie) and the
Linux vendors can duke it out...

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