Since an update to the default USE flags on gcc 6 turned on PIE and SSP, i'm getting these errors;
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: atof-generic.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: dw2gencfi.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: frags.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: messages.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: subsegs.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: symbols.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against symbol `_sch_toupper' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: atof-ieee.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: symbols.o: warning: relocation against `strlen@@GLIBC_2.2.5' in readonly section `.text' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status If I add -fPIC to CFLAGS it will compile. Interestingly some packages (eg PHP) will compile without the -fPIC. Also the man page says; "This option makes a difference on AArch64, m68k, PowerPC and SPARC:, whereas i'm running amd64. What's going on here?
