Re: [PATCH] meson: remove -no-pie linker flag

[Michael Tokarev]

22.05.2023 18:54, Richard Henderson wrote:
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> -no-pie is a linker flag, but distro folk that didn't quite know what they were doing made local changes to gcc's specs file.  So it *is* a compiler 
> command-line flag, but only for some builds of gcc.

Which distros is that? Debian?
Patching gcc spec file like this - if that's true - is a way to disaster,
and should be stopped.

Thanks,

/mjt
> We can't just remove -no-pie, we need to probe for it as 
> cc.get_supported_arguments instead of cc.get_supported_link_arguments.
>
> Or something.  It's a mess, for sure.
>
>
> r~