Probably just clone the -nopie AC check macro with -no-pie, and just pass
whichever, if any, wins.

--César

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 11:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Cesar Quiroz <cesar.quiroz@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 22:31:46 -0700
> > Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, 24682@debbugs.gnu.org,
> >       Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> >       Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
> >
> > -no-pie versus -nopie
> >
> > There was something in the release notes about -no-pie being the
> standard negation of -pie, while -nopie was
> > introduced (by Debian?) to deal with the issue.
> >
> > Relevant snippet from config.log:
> >
> > configure:31624: checking whether gcc accepts -nopie
> > configure:31644: gcc -o conftest -no-pie -nopie conftest.c >&5
> > gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-nopie'; did you mean
> '-no-pie'?
> > configure:31644: $? = 1
>
> I guess the fix, whatever it is, should be backported to the release
> branch?
>