Subject: Re: configure test for nopie with gcc 4.4.3 on Trisquel 4.1

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:18:57 -0700

Thanks for reporting that.  In master commit 
c6e93df20266fe9f8517f14f3b7c367281f988a5 I installed the attached patch, which 
fixed the bug for me.
>From aefb6f4a4b4bc59386d817728760a15e1225aa6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:14:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Pre-4.6 GCC succeeds with unknown option

* configure.ac (emacs_cv_prog_cc_nopie): Port to pre-4.6 GCC.
Fixes: bug#20338
---
 configure.ac | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c35e962..39f3f9f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5021,18 +5021,19 @@ esac
 # -nopie fixes a temacs segfault on Gentoo, OpenBSD, and other systems
 # with "hardened" GCC configurations for some reason (Bug#18784).
 # We don't know why -nopie works, but not segfaulting is better than
-# segfaulting.  Use -Werror when trying -nopie, otherwise clang keeps
-# warning that it does not understand -nopie.
+# segfaulting.  Use ac_c_werror_flag=yes when trying -nopie, otherwise
+# clang keeps warning that it does not understand -nopie, and pre-4.6
+# GCC has a similar problem (Bug#20338).
 AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether $CC accepts -nopie],
   [emacs_cv_prog_cc_nopie],
-  [emacs_save_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS
+  [emacs_save_c_werror_flag=$ac_c_werror_flag
    emacs_save_LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS
-   CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror"
+   ac_c_werror_flag=yes
    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -nopie"
    AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([], [])],
      [emacs_cv_prog_cc_nopie=yes],
      [emacs_cv_prog_cc_nopie=no])
-   CFLAGS=$emacs_save_CFLAGS
+   ac_c_werror_flag=$emacs_save_c_werror_flag
    LDFLAGS=$emacs_save_LDFLAGS])
 if test "$emacs_cv_prog_cc_nopie" = yes; then
   LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS="$LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS -nopie"
-- 
2.1.0