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Can the GCC toolchain be built AS a PIE?

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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.

posted Jun 11, 2015 by anonymous

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Is this a FAQ? Or is the answer obvious?
commented Jun 13, 2015 by Sumit Pokharna

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