[debbugs-tracker] bug#20338: closed (configure test for nopie with gcc 4.4.3 on Trisquel 4.1)

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regarding configure test for nopie with gcc 4.4.3 on Trisquel 4.1
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> configure test for nopie with gcc 4.4.3 on Trisquel 4.1
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> Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:13:04 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> On fencepost.gnu.org, I noticed the following oddity in config.log:
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>     configure:30326: checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -nopie
>     configure:30346: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g3 -O2 -Werror -nopie 
> conftest.c   >&5 
>     gcc: unrecognized option '-nopie'
>     configure:30346: $? = 0
>     configure:30356: result: yes
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> cat /etc/issue
> Trisquel GNU/Linux 4.1 \n \l
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> gcc --version
> gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) 4.4.3
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> cat test.c
> int main ()
>  {
>    return 0;
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> gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g3 -O2 -Werror -nopie test.c
> gcc: unrecognized option '-nopie'
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> echo $?
> 0
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> Seems odd. Whereas:
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> gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g3 -O2 -Werror  -foobar test.c
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-foobar"
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> echo $?
> 1
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: configure test for nopie with gcc 4.4.3 on Trisquel 4.1 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:18:57 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 Thanks for reporting that. In master commit c6e93df20266fe9f8517f14f3b7c367281f988a5 I installed the attached patch, which fixed the bug for me.

0001-Pre-4.6-GCC-succeeds-with-unknown-option.patch
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