#12755: Build from source fails on Ubuntu 16.10: ld: -r and -pie may not be used together -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: SamuelMarks | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 8.0.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Linux | Architecture: x86_64 Type of failure: Building GHC | (amd64) failed | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by hvr): This is a known issue and there should be already related tickets filed about this in the GHC wiki. Also, in https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc I addressed this problem by simply calling `configure` a bit differently to make it work which basically comes down to {{{ CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE2=-fno-PIE \ CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2=-no-pie \ CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2=-no-pie \ ./configure }}} Did somebody come up with a reliable autoconf test already to detect whether `gcc` has `-no-pie` on by default? IIRC you can't rely on CPP for this and you really have to perform a compile and analyse the result, which is the main reason we haven't implemented it yet... -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12755#comment:1 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler