Hello. I am using Gentoo with hardened features enabled. Recently i want to try yi-editor. I built GHC with emerge and nothing strange happened. However, I got following error information when i built yi: Building yi-0.6.1... [ 1 of 119] Compiling System.FriendlyPath ( System/FriendlyPath.hs, dist/build/System/FriendlyPath.o ) [ 2 of 119] Compiling Shim.ProjectContent ( Shim/ProjectContent.hs, dist/build/Shim/ProjectContent.o ) [ 3 of 119] Compiling Parser.Incremental ( Parser/Incremental.hs, dist/build/Parser/Incremental.o ) [ 4 of 119] Compiling Data.Trie ( Data/Trie.hs, dist/build/Data/Trie.o ) [ 5 of 119] Compiling Data.DelayList ( Data/DelayList.hs, dist/build/Data/DelayList.o ) [ 6 of 119] Compiling Data.Rope ( Data/Rope.hs, dist/build/Data/Rope.o ) [ 7 of 119] Compiling Data.Prototype ( Data/Prototype.hs, dist/build/Data/Prototype.o ) [ 8 of 119] Compiling HConf.Utils ( HConf/Utils.hs, dist/build/HConf/Utils.o ) [ 9 of 119] Compiling HConf.Paths ( HConf/Paths.hs, dist/build/HConf/Paths.o ) [ 10 of 119] Compiling Paths_yi ( dist/build/autogen/Paths_yi.hs, dist/build/Paths_yi.o ) [ 11 of 119] Compiling HConf ( HConf.hs, dist/build/HConf.o ) [ 12 of 119] Compiling Yi.Char.Unicode ( Yi/Char/Unicode.hs, dist/build/Yi/Char/Unicode.o ) [ 13 of 119] Compiling Yi.UI.Common[boot] ( Yi/UI/Common.hs-boot, dist/build/Yi/UI/Common.o-boot ) [ 14 of 119] Compiling Yi.String ( Yi/String.hs, dist/build/Yi/String.o ) [ 15 of 119] Compiling Yi.Monad ( Yi/Monad.hs, dist/build/Yi/Monad.o ) [ 16 of 119] Compiling Yi.Keymap.Completion ( Yi/Keymap/Completion.hs, dist/build/Yi/Keymap/Completion.o ) [ 17 of 119] Compiling Yi.Editor[boot] ( Yi/Editor.hs-boot, dist/build/Yi/Editor.o-boot ) [ 18 of 119] Compiling Yi.Debug ( Yi/Debug.hs, dist/build/Yi/Debug.o ) [ 19 of 119] Compiling Yi.Prelude ( Yi/Prelude.hs, dist/build/Yi/Prelude.o ) [ 20 of 119] Compiling Yi.Dynamic ( Yi/Dynamic.hs, dist/build/Yi/Dynamic.o ) [ 21 of 119] Compiling Yi.Event ( Yi/Event.hs, dist/build/Yi/Event.o ) [ 22 of 119] Compiling Yi.Interact ( Yi/Interact.hs, dist/build/Yi/Interact.o ) [ 23 of 119] Compiling Yi.Keymap[boot] ( Yi/Keymap.hs-boot, dist/build/Yi/Keymap.o-boot ) [ 24 of 119] Compiling Yi.Style ( Yi/Style.hs, dist/build/Yi/Style.o ) [ 25 of 119] Compiling Yi.Style.Library ( Yi/Style/Library.hs, dist/build/Yi/Style/Library.o ) [ 26 of 119] Compiling Yi.Interpreter ( Yi/Interpreter.hs, dist/build/Yi/Interpreter.o ) [ 27 of 119] Compiling Shim.Utils ( Shim/Utils.hs, dist/build/Shim/Utils.o ) [ 28 of 119] Compiling Shim.CabalInfo ( Shim/CabalInfo.hs, dist/build/Shim/CabalInfo.o ) [ 29 of 119] Compiling Yi.Buffer.Misc[boot] ( Yi/Buffer/Misc.hs-boot, dist/build/Yi/Buffer/Misc.o-boot ) [ 30 of 119] Compiling Yi.Buffer.Basic ( Yi/Buffer/Basic.hs, dist/build/Yi/Buffer/Basic.o ) ghc: /usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/ghc-prim-0.1.0.0/HSghc-prim-0.1.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_' Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... ghc: unable to load package `ghc-prim' I notice that Gentoo has already done some works about disabling hardened features temporarily for Haskell. Here is the mk/build.mk: # Gentoo changes docdir = /usr/share/doc/ghc-6.10.4 htmldir = /usr/share/doc/ghc-6.10.4 SRC_HC_OPTS+= -optc-march=native -opta-march=native -optc-nopie -optl-nopie -optc-fno-PIE -opta-Wa,--noexecstack SRC_CC_OPTS+=-O2 -march=native -pipe -nopie -Wa,--noexecstack XMLDocWays= HADDOCK_DOCS=NO SRC_HC_OPTS+=-w While talking on IRC (#gentoo-haskell and #haskell) I was told that this might be caused by a broken GHC. Although above shows that PIE are disabled, ghc-prim (maybe at least) is still built with PIE enabled. According to advice from #gentoo-haskell, I was told to seek for help here. I also submit a bug about it as #3668. (Very sorry that I ask everywhere. Forgive me, but until yesterday I forgot my password of my gmail and cannot join a mailling-list.) Thank igloo told me add "-nopie" in SRC_LD_OPTS. I did but still failed: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ == make boot - --no-print-directory -r --jobserver-fds=3,4 - --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j; in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-6.10.4/work/ghc-6.10.4/utils/genapply ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-6.10.4/work/usr/bin/ghc -package-conf /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-6.10.4/work/ghc-6.10.4/libraries/bootstrapping.conf -H32m -O -optc-march=native -opta-march=native -optc-nopie -optl-nopie -opta-Wa,--noexecstack -w -package pretty -fforce-recomp -c GenApply.hs -o GenApply.o -ohi GenApply.hi /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-6.10.4/work/usr/bin/ghc -M -dep-makefile .depend -osuf o -package-conf /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-6.10.4/work/ghc-6.10.4/libraries/bootstrapping.conf -package-conf /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-6.10.4/work/ghc-6.10.4/libraries/bootstrapping.conf -H32m -O -optc-march=native -opta-march=native -optc-nopie -optl-nopie -opta-Wa,--noexecstack -w -package pretty -fforce-recomp GenApply.hs /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-6.10.4/work/usr/bin/ghc -o genapply -package-conf /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-6.10.4/work/ghc-6.10.4/libraries/bootstrapping.conf -H32m -O -optc-march=native -opta-march=native -optc-nopie -optl-nopie -opta-Wa,--noexecstack -w -package pretty -fforce-recomp -nopie GenApply.o ghc: unrecognised flags: -nopie Usage: For basic information, try the `--help' option. make[2]: *** [genapply] Error 1 Failed making boot in genapply: 1 make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1 make: *** [stage1] Error 1 I am surprised that why "-nopie" is sent here. Since wiki only told me to see config.mk.in and it does not have any examples, I have no idea about SRC_LD_OPTS. I need help how to completely disable PIE for GHC. Thank you very much. Hongjiu Zhang