On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Jack Howarth <howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 10:45:18PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
>> On Dec 3, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>> FSF gcc currently doesn't handle -fno-pie and friends properly under Lion.
>>> The darwin11 linker now defaults to -pie
>> 
>>> Okay for gcc trunk and backports to gcc-4_5-branch/gcc-4_6-branch?
>> 
>> Ok.
> 
> Mike,
>   Thanks for the commit. This leaves us with the boehm-gc testsuite 
> failures...
> 
> FAIL: boehm-gc.c/gctest.c -O2 execution test
> FAIL: boehm-gc.c/leak_test.c -O2 execution test
> FAIL: boehm-gc.c/thread_leak_test.c -O2 execution test
> FAIL: boehm-gc.lib/staticrootstest.c -O2 execution test
> 
> at -m32/-m64 on x86_64-apple-darwin11 due to the -pie linker default. Iain 
> had wanted
> to leave these in place to encourage boehm-gc to be fixed but I doubt that is 
> a realistic
> goal in the near/middle term. Perhaps we could patch 
> boehm-gc/testsuite/lib/boehm-gc.exp
> to pass -fno-pie on darwin (now that it is functional)?

I think we should just find a way to add -fno-pie...  Are there any flags that 
are added because we are doing gc that we can key off of?

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