[Development] Qt, fPIE, fPIC and changes coming in Qt 5.4.2

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 28 May 2015 17:57:55 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Thursday May 28 2015 12:24:55 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > Hi! I've been watching the recent changes in Qt 5.4.2 due to gcc5. I have
> > some doubts I would like to clear.
> > 
> > Please feel free to correct me and/or expand whatever you think it's
> > worth.
> 
> Additional question: how does this affect people using clang (on any
> platform)?

Clang -fPIC -flto on ELF platforms is broken. Don't use LTO for applications.

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