Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’

2017-08-11 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
control: forcemerge 871740 867853 > Okay, I'll take this to mean that if I submit a working/useful patch, you'll > apply it. I'll get to work on that. consider that: gcc-5 is not part of any Debian stable release, and gcc-4.9 is has been part of jessie for a while, but jessie was released

Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’)

2017-07-10 Thread Brian Sammon
On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:50:03 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > updating control file, adding version constraints with versions not in the > > archive anymore is kind of useless, speaking about Buster we won't have suc > gcc versions anymore since at least two

Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’)

2017-07-10 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, >I'm not sure I understand this response. > >When you say "gcc-specific", are you saying that the Debian Haskell package >supports compilers other than gcc? It appears to me that it specifically >requires gcc. I mean, that the flag has been added by gcc, and a lot of programs in

Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’)

2017-07-10 Thread Brian Sammon
> I guess it is better to patch older gccs to understand such flag and give > no-op in this case. > There is no point in: > 1) fixing the whole archive for a gcc-specific change > 2) using ghc with older, unsupported compilers. I'm not sure I understand this response. When you say "gcc-specific",

Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’

2017-07-09 Thread Brian Sammon
Package: ghc Version: 8.0.1-17 Severity: important The ghc package needs tighter dependencies against gcc and gcc-5 : When I'm using old versions of gcc, I get the following error message when ghc tries to do the link phase: Linking test ... gcc: error: unrecognized command line option