https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77464
--- Comment #10 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #5) > (In reply to Manuel López-Ibáñez from comment #3) > > Or at least give a clearer error that mentions -fPIC ... > > Actually this is not a driver issue just a binutils issue if that. Why add > no-pie anyways to the ldflags. GCC controls the driver and decides what to pass to the linker. (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #8) > Basically -no-pie says you are now doing an executable overriding the > previous -shared. This is not a bug, you want -no-pie -shared. This seems counter-intuitive to how other options work. The documentation says nothing about it. Then we wonder why people complain that GCC is harder to use/learn.