Subject: bug#20215: 25.0.50; Support compilation as PIE

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:46:00 -0400

> Currently when trying to compile as a position-independent executable,
> e.g.

> ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS=-pie && make

> Emacs segfaults when dumping.

I have no idea why it would crash during the dumping process, but
I wouldn't be surprised if after a successful dump of `temacs', the
resulting `emacs' crashes early on, since the dump will be writing
a heap which will probably contain pointers back into the code.

        Stefan