Re: -pie is broken on hppa

"John David Anglin" <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:19:20 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.ports.hppa,gmane.linux.debian.ports.hppa
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> I discovered that the breakage of portmap on hppa is related to the
> -pie linkage.
> Every program linked with the -pie option segfaults at start.
> Unfortunately, portmap is unconditionnaly built with this option.

I advise not updating to libc6 2.5-9.  More than pie apps seem
affected.  For example, svn is broken on my system.  _start in
*crt1.o needs fixing.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  [email protected]
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