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.



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