Prior to Qt 5.4.2 (commit 36d6eb721e), we
allowed it, but now we need to enforce that it is not used. Note that
-fPIE does define __PIC__, so we need this to catch the use of -fPIE.
[ChangeLog][Important Behavior Changes] On x86 and x86-64 systems with
ELF binaries (especially Linux), due to a new optimization in GCC 5.x in
combination with a recent version of GNU binutils, compiling Qt
applications with -fPIE is no longer enough. Applications now need to be
compiled with the -fPIC option if Qt's option "reduce relocations" is
active. Note that Clang is known to generate incompatible code even with
-fPIC if the -flto option is active.
Task-number: QTBUG-45755
Change-Id: I66a35ce5f88941f29aa6ffff13dd210e0aa2728f
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann@theqtcompany.com>
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