tags 822820 unreproducible
thanks

Greetings!  I can add -fPIE without issue to the build flags used for
the failed target you report in an up-to-date Debian unstable chroot
(amd64). 

Take care, 

Adam Conrad <adcon...@debian.org> writes:

> Package: gcl
> Version: 2.6.12-32
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu yakkety ubuntu-patch
>
>
>
> In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
>
>   * Set CC to 'gcc -fno-pie -no-pie' to prevent FTBFS (LP: #1557236)
>
> The patch itself should be self-explanatory.  In Ubuntu, we now default
> to '-fPIE -pie' on amd64, ppc64el, and s390x.  Turns out that gcl, when
> compiled with -fPIE breaks rather spectacularly.
>
> This patch should be a no-op for Debian, but it's good future-proofing
> against a time when Debian may choose to change their defaults as well.
>
> Compare build resutls before:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcl/2.6.12-32
>
> And after:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcl/2.6.12-32ubuntu1
>
> ... Adam
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers yakkety-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'yakkety-updates'), (500, 'yakkety-security'), (500, 
> 'yakkety')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-21-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>

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Camm Maguire                                        c...@maguirefamily.org
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