Bug#840394: motif: FTBFS: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `exit@@GLIBC_2.2.5' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Bas

On 13 October 2016 at 20:07, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebas...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Are you sure about that timing?

I'm not sure exactly when that is happening.

> The failed motif builds are preventing the grass rebuilds for the
> readline7 transition (#838234), waiting for the above may not be such a
> good idea.

Waiting for the GCC6 upload enabling PIE by default can be avoided by
fixing #837658 directly, i.e. by uploading flex with
DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all, or similar.

Regards
Graham