This is a hack to work around , where the CoreOS makefiles clobber LDFLAGS to an empty valie, defeating the value calculated by configure. Index: samba/source/Makefile.in =================================================================== --- samba/source/Makefile.in.orig +++ samba/source/Makefile.in @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ AR=@AR@ LDSHFLAGS=@LDSHFLAGS@ @LDFLAGS@ MODULE_EXPORTS=@MODULE_EXPORTS@ WINBIND_NSS_LDSHFLAGS=@WINBIND_NSS_LDSHFLAGS@ @LDFLAGS@ -LDFLAGS=@PIE_LDFLAGS@ @LDFLAGS@ +override LDFLAGS=@PIE_LDFLAGS@ @LDFLAGS@ AWK=@AWK@ PICFLAG=@PICFLAG@ DYNEXP=@DYNEXP@