Re: -pie is broken on hppa

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:19:20PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > 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.

This is a matter of some urgency -- I heard glibc 2.5 moved into Debian
Testing today.