Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’

[Brian Sammon]

Package: ghc
Version: 8.0.1-17
Severity: important

The ghc package needs tighter dependencies against gcc and gcc-5 :
When I'm using old versions of gcc, I get the following error message when
ghc tries to do the link phase:
  Linking test ...
  gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
  `gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)

(in all 3 cases, gcc-4 package is installed and all dependencies satisfied)
With gcc at 4.9.2-4 and gcc-5 at 5.3.1-15, I get the error
With gcc at 5-0 and gcc-5 at 5.2.1-23, I get the error
With gcc at 5-0 and gcc-5 at 5.3.1-15, it succeeds in building the
executable

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (990, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ghc depends on:
ii  dpkg             1.17.27
ii  gcc              4:4.9.2-4
ii  libbsd-dev       0.7.0-2
ii  libc6            2.23-5
ii  libc6-dev        2.23-5
ii  libffi-dev       3.1-2+b2
ii  libffi6          3.1-2+b2
ii  libgmp-dev       2:6.0.0+dfsg-6
ii  libgmp10         2:6.0.0+dfsg-6
ii  libncurses5-dev  6.0+20160625-1
ii  libtinfo5        6.0+20160625-1

ghc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ghc suggests:
ii  ghc-doc      8.0.1-17
pn  ghc-prof     <none>
pn  haskell-doc  <none>
pn  llvm-3.7     <none>
ii  perl         5.20.2-3+deb8u6

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