Re: [Valgrind-users] problems with Ubuntu 17.10

[John R. <jr...@bi...>]

> But the larger, more pervasive problem is with this release of Ubuntu
> the gcc (7.2.0) compiler has changed to emitting position
> independent code by default. I have tried to add -no-pie
> to compiler options but have not been successful.

Why is that a problem?  And is it a problem in building valgrind itself,
or in applying an old valgrind to newly-compiled code?
Please give an explicit example (copy+paste) of a new complaint,
and analyze it as best you can.

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