Comment 18 for bug 916477

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Yves-Alexis Perez (corsac) wrote :

Ok, this is because of hardening flags, and especially PIE:

scapa# LDFLAGS="-fPIE -pie" ./configure |grep -- -static
checking if gcc static flag -static works... no
scapa# ./configure |grep -- -static
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes

I'm not too sure if lightdm-gtk-greeter does something weird wrt. others, but there's definitely something fishy here.