Prevent erroneous inline optimization of initfini.s on PowerPC64. The problem and the fix was reported there: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-01/msg00195.html Git commit: commit 1fe05ea95e1460e5e1cf1568a8ce3982f0f02de6 Author: Ryan S. Arnold Date: Tue May 3 17:26:17 2011 -0500 --- glibc.orig/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Makefile 2012-12-22 19:10:06.713568781 -0800 +++ glibc/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Makefile 2012-12-22 19:10:50.318605517 -0800 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ ifneq ($(elf),no) # The initfini generation code doesn't work in the presence of -fPIC, so # we use -fpic instead which is much better. -CFLAGS-initfini.s += -fpic -O1 +CFLAGS-initfini.s += -fpic -O1 -fno-inline endif endif