Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Trying to build glibc with gold fails (as expected, but I thought I'd > try). More precisely, after I eliminate the pointless version check, > the configure script errors out like this: > > checking for -z relro option... no > configure: error: linker with -z relro support required
Hmm, I should have read <http://bugs.debian.org/555886>. Peter Fritzsche wrote: > -z -combreloc, -fPIE, "-z relro", -fpic, -fPIC are buggy and simply ignored > by > the old linker (even if it should fail). These problem were forwarded to the > package maintainers Could you elaborate? If this is a bug in the glibc configure script, great, but I would like to understand why before submitting a patch to change it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

