https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77464
--- Comment #11 from Balint Reczey <balint at balintreczey dot hu> --- (In reply to Manuel López-Ibáñez from comment #10) > (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. This is both counter-intuitive and inconvenient but I have to move on. I take this a WONTFIX and continue paving the way for using --enable-default-pie in Debian in a less pleasant way. Thank you at least for the quick response.