Arch Linux

This is an upstream bug already reported here https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13750 (it applies to pcmanfm too), compiled executable files in user space are identified as shared object files. Since gcc defaulted to 'silently' using the -pie option thunar doesn't identify the application MIME type correctly. Attempting to launch a -pie executable from thunar activates the context application chooser menu to display.


Additional info:
Thunar 1.6.15
gcc (GCC) 8.1.0 (8.1.0-1 in Arch repo?)

Steps to reproduce:

Compile a simple test program.

gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld
file helloworld
helloworld: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=4343e7cf7432c88a3974d88e07e7e5f5cf5f92a8, not stripped

executable file will not launch from thunar

Recompile with -pie option disabled

gcc -no-pie helloworld.c -o helloworld
file helloworld
helloworld: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=e6f51544e86c8454bb1a65e4fa809d13484d9114, not stripped

executable file will launch from thunar