Thanks to everyone for their inputs. The efforts in the past were by colleagues who are working with me so hopefully our combined knowledge will push us further. I took your advice and created a wrapper around the compiler to drop -fPIC for now. Still in stage 1, trying to compile libiberty - it seems to use alloc whereas HPE's advice to us is to use newer functions like malloc - will libiberty not compile without alloc or is there a way to bypass it so it uses the newer functions?
