Re: Disabling -pie when linking?

[Guillem Jover]

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 07:36:53 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 00:13 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Sun 20 Jan 2013 18:18:16 +0100, a écrit :
> > > A recent problem popping up is that executables using the -pie flag when
> > > linking segfaults when starting up. Examples are mktable in w3m
> > 
> > It doesn't seem so simple. I've tried building a small program with
> > -pie, and it does work. I've tried to use w3m, it does work. elinks does
> > indeed crash.
> 
> I know in which module elinks crashes. Disabling it makes things work
> again. Can this be of interest?

If this reproducibly crashes anything built with -pie, then I'll be
“happy” to disable the flag from dpkg-buildflags output.

Thanks,
Guillem