One more polite bump for the Monday crowd, before I try it out On June 13, 2015 10:56:42 AM CDT, Cyd Haselton <chaselton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Is this a FAQ? Or is the answer obvious? > >On June 11, 2015 7:17:11 AM CDT, Cyd Haselton <chaselton@xxxxxxxxx> >wrote: >>Advance apologies if this question has been asked previously, Google >>searches only turned up results for using -fPIE/-fPIC. >> >>Is it possible to build GCC as a PIE? If so, would it be a matter of >>including the -FPIC/-FPIE params for CFLAGS and/or LDFLAGS and running >>configure && make, or are there issues I should be aware of (for >>example, should I set parameters for cross-building)? >> >>Background: Android 5.0 requires PIE, which means that upgrading will >>break my existing native build environment...unless I can build a PIE >>GCC first, then re-build all of my utilities with it.