Bug#843198: gcc-6: Cross-compiles older GCC badly

2016-11-04 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
Correction: I hadn't smacked the cross-compiler build process hard enough to get -fno-pie -no-pie into all its compile steps. Once I hit it with a bigger stick, that did function as a workaround for this issue for me, albeit an ugly one.

Bug#843198: gcc-6: Cross-compiles older GCC badly

2016-11-04 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
Package: gcc-6 Version: 6.2.0-11 Severity: normal I'm working on a project that uses a Linaro gcc 4.8.3 cross compiler for ARM, which I'm building on my Debian desktop. As of gcc-6 6.2.0-6, this worked fine. As of gcc-6 6.2.0-10, a subtly bad cross-compiler seems to be generated. My build is fa