https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65886
--- Comment #30 from Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde dot org> --- (In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #28) > (In reply to Thiago Macieira from comment #27) > > (In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #26) > > Can you guarantee that the linker won't generate copy relocs for -fPIC? > > Yes. Thanks. We'll start requiring -fPIC as of Qt 5.4.2 and we'll advise Linux distributions to backport the patch if they also upgrade GCC from 4.9. For reference: https://codereview.qt-project.org/111787 Please treat this bug report now as a feature suggestion.