IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-11-08

<pinotree> tschwinge: i'm not totally sure, but it seems the pie options
  for gcc/ld are causing issues
<pinotree> namely, producing executables that sigsegv straight away
<tschwinge> pinotree: OK, I do remember some issues about these, too.
<tschwinge> Also for -pg.
<tschwinge> These have in common that they use different crt*.o files for
  linking.
<tschwinge> Might well be there's some bugs there.
<pinotree> one way is to try the w3m debian build: the current build
  configuration enables also pie, which in turns makes an helper executable
  (mktable) sigsegv when invoked
<pinotree> if «,-pie» is appended to the DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS variable
  in debian/rules, pie is not added and the resulting mktable runs
  correctly

IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-11-09

<pinotree> youpi: ah, as i noted to tschwinge earlier, it seems -fPIE -pie
  miscompile stuff
<youpi> uh
<pinotree> this causes the w3m build failure and (indirectly, due to elinks
  built with -pie) aptitude

IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-01-19

<gnu_srs> pinotree: I can confirm that -fPIE -pie fails and only -fPIE
  works for mktable in w3m. Still have to check with elinks. What's up doc?

id:"20130211040854.GN5926@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr"

glibc t/pie-sbrk branch.

2016-04

Profiling has been fixed (GCC specs; commit 9b2eb5d3268cf674f9a6964479f20428e0b43500); PIE unknown. See also PIE_SPEC comments in gcc.