[Bug ld/19538] ld >= 2.26 breaks syslinux (bios) build

[hpa at zytor dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19538

--- Comment #13 from hpa at zytor dot com <hpa at zytor dot com> ---
On January 30, 2016 4:19:57 PM PST, "hjl.tools at gmail dot com"
<address@hidden> wrote:
>https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19538
>
>--- Comment #12 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
>(In reply to address@hidden from comment #11)
>> 
>> But that is not built in core/bios.
>
>core/Makefile has
>
># Set up the NASM and LD options for the architecture
>NASM_ELF = "unknown"
>LD_PIE = "unknown"
>ifeq ($(ARCH),i386)
>        NASM_ELF = elf 
>        LD_PIE = -pie
>endif
>ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
>        NASM_ELF = elf64
>        #LD_PIE = --pic-executable
>        LD_PIE = 
>endif

And that is true for most of the modules.  Let me look into it later.

However, part of the weirdness is that it is a partly pic and partly non-pic
object.

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