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@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ address without help from a dynamic linker. All static programs as
well as static tests are built as static PIE, except for those marked
with no-pie. The resulting glibc can be used with the GCC option,
-static-pie, which is available with GCC 8 or above, to create static
-PIE.
+PIE. This option also implies that glibc programs and tests are created
+as dynamic position independent executables (PIE) by default.
@item --disable-profile
Don't build libraries with profiling information. You may want to use