We already uses PIE as default. Unbreak with lld Index: configure.ac --- configure.ac.orig +++ configure.ac @@ -984,7 +984,6 @@ if test "$use_hardening" != "no"; then AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([-Wl,-z,relro], [HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,relro"], [], [$LDFLAG_WERROR]) AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([-Wl,-z,now], [HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,now"], [], [$LDFLAG_WERROR]) AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([-Wl,-z,separate-code], [HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,separate-code"], [], [$LDFLAG_WERROR]) - AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([-fPIE -pie], [PIE_FLAGS="-fPIE"; HARDENED_LDFLAGS="$HARDENED_LDFLAGS -pie"], [], [$CXXFLAG_WERROR]) case $host in *mingw*)