Your message dated Mon, 05 Jun 2017 09:17:00 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: stretch: mention that the -fPIC error message is misleading has caused the Debian Bug report #864036, regarding stretch: mention that the -fPIC error message is misleading to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: release-notes Severity: minor 5.1.6.1. Behaviour changes of PIE for system administrators and developers ... Static libraries being compiled into an executable now also need to be compiled as position independent code. The following error message from the linker is a symptom of this: relocation ... against '[SYMBOL]' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC Please add a sentence like: Note that even though the error message says -fPIC, it is sufficient to recompile with -fPIE (which is the default in the GCC 6 packages that are part of stretch).
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--- Begin Message ---On Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:14:51 +0300 Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: minor > > 5.1.6.1. Behaviour changes of PIE for system administrators and developers > ... > Static libraries being compiled into an executable now also need to be > compiled as position independent code. The following error message from the > linker is a symptom of this: > relocation ... against '[SYMBOL]' can not be used when making a shared > object; recompile with -fPIC > > > Please add a sentence like: > > Note that even though the error message says -fPIC, it is sufficient to > recompile with -fPIE (which is the default in the GCC 6 packages that are > part of stretch). > > Thanks, added. It will be live in a few hours from now. ~Niels
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