http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919819 --- Comment #3 from Richard Biener --- Confirmed. The issue is combining -pie -fPIE and -static. On x86_64 you instead get

gcc -o ct -fPIE -pie -static t.c /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/crtbeginT.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `__TMC_END__' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/crtbeginT.o: error adding symbols: Bad value

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

that's because there isn't a PIE static crtbegin.o. On i?86 you are just lucky. Combining PIE and -static is simply not supported. New linker from Factory seems to handle this fine (in some sense - it produces a shared object with no dependencies). What is the configure test testing? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.