Re: [PATCH] configure: Avoid unnecessary constraints on executables for $build.

[Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 5:44 PM Iain Sandoe <iain@sandoe.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> > On 8 Sep 2021, at 07:35, Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:11 PM Iain Sandoe <iain@sandoe.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
>
> >> So, looking through the various email threads and the PR, I think that
> >> what has happened is :
> >>
> >> As the PR points out, our existing PCH model does not work if the compiler
> >> executable is PIE - which manifests on platforms like Darwin (which is PIE
> >> by default) or Linux when configured —enable-default-pie.
> >>
> >> H.J’s original patch forces no-PIE onto the compiler executables, and
> >> because of shared code on $host also to the driver etc.
>
> >> OK for master, and eventually backports?
> >
> > OK for trunk, I think it warrants quite some soaking time before considering
> > backports.
>
> It’s been on master for quite some time now (and presumably several cycles of
> everyone’s CI) without any reports of problems,  it would be good to get this at
> least onto 11 and 10 (since that is the last version we can bootstrap with c++98).
>
> OK for backports now?

OK.

> thanks
> Iain
>