http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919819
--- Comment #5 from Giacomo Comes
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.
Tha fact that it is not supported is just fine. The problem is that configure hangs and do not complete on 32-bit. That's because ld does not terminate with an error but it hangs. You need to kill the ld process in order to let configure continue.
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?
checking if gcc -std=gnu99 static flag -static works. The answer should be no, but on 32-bit it never gets there. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.