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+# IRC, freenode, #debian-hurd, 2012-11-08
+
+    <pinotree> tschwinge: i'm not totally sure, but it seems the pie options
+      for gcc/ld are causing issues
+    <pinotree> namely, producing executables that sigsegv straight away
+    <tschwinge> pinotree: OK, I do remember some issues about these, too.
+    <tschwinge> Also for -pg.
+    <tschwinge> These have in common that they use different crt*.o files for
+      linking.
+    <tschwinge> Might well be there's some bugs there.
+    <pinotree> one way is to try the w3m debian build: the current build
+      configuration enables also pie, which in turns makes an helper executable
+      (mktable) sigsegv when invoked
+    <pinotree> if «,-pie» is appended to the DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS variable
+      in debian/rules, pie is not added and the resulting mktable runs
+      correctly
+
+
+## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-11-09
+
+    <pinotree> youpi: ah, as i noted to tschwinge earlier, it seems -fPIE -pie
+      miscompile stuff
+    <youpi> uh
+    <pinotree> this causes the w3m build failure and (indirectly, due to elinks
+      built with -pie) aptitude