Subject: Re: bug#18784: Coultdn't compile emacs-24.4

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:09:52 -0400

> +if test "$GCC" = yes; then
> +  # Disable PIE to avoid segfaults in temacs (bug#18780)
> +  LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS="$LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS -nopie"
> +fi

Hmm... is `-nopie' a linker-option or a compiler-option?
IOW what about systems which use gcc to compile but something else to
link or vice-versa?

        Stefan