Re: Disabling -pie when linking?

[Guillem Jover]

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 12:25:22 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Guillem Jover, le Tue 29 Jan 2013 10:22:53 +0100, a écrit :
> > 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,
> 
> No. That's precisely my point :)

Err, right sorry, I think I was in no-read-context-mode. In any case
if this is not just particular to some package, but generic enough to
affect quite many, I'd be fine disabling it too, until a solution is
found or it gets tracked down.

Regards,
Guillem