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authorBen Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>2017-08-22 11:41:47 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2017-08-22 18:01:05 -0400
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Add support for producing position-independent executables
Previously due to #12759 we disabled PIE support entirely. However, this breaks the user's ability to produce PIEs. Add an explicit flag, -fPIE, allowing the user to build PIEs. Test Plan: Validate Reviewers: rwbarton, austin, simonmar Subscribers: trommler, simonmar, trofi, jrtc27, thomie GHC Trac Issues: #12759, #13702 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3589
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@@ -207,6 +207,10 @@ library directories of all the packages that the program depends on
paths. The unix tool ``readelf --dynamic`` is handy for inspecting the
``RPATH``/``RUNPATH`` entries in ELF shared libraries and executables.
+On most UNIX platforms it is also possible to build executables that can be
+``dlopen``\'d like shared libraries using the :ghc-flag:`-pie` flag during
+linking.
+
.. _finding-shared-libs-mac:
Mac OS X