Bug#869373: Bug#869122: perl: 5.26 FTBFS on hppa: broken miniperl?

[John David Anglin]

On 2017-07-25, at 3:55 PM, John David Anglin wrote:

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>>> Or does this hit the hppa "-O0 -fPIC" problem again?
>> 
>> Again, I don't know.  I had thought the R_PARISC_DPREL21L relocation problem was
>> an optimization issue.  I have installed perl 5.26+b1 on a couple of systems.  Building
>> libjavascript-minifier-xs-perl with it doesn't trigger the issue nor does building it with
>> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noop.
> 
> There are a handful of packages that still have the R_PARISC_DPREL21L relocation problem
> using 5.26+b1.  I looked at libembperl-perl.  The gcc driver is dropping the -fPIC option and
> it's not passed to cc1.  Thus, the relocation error.

-fPIC is recognized if it is last option.  Maybe it has to come after -fno-pie?

Dave
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