Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.0] configure: build position independent executables across the board, by default

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 November 2011 14:41, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> +if test "$pie" = "yes" ; then
> +  QEMU_CFLAGS="-fPIE -DPIE $QEMU_CFLAGS"
> +  LDFLAGS="-Wl,-pie $LDFLAGS"
> +  cat > $TMPC << EOF
> +int main(void) { return 0; }
> +EOF
> +  if compile_prog "-fPIE -DPIE" "-Wl,-pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now"; then
> +    LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now $LDFLAGS"
> +  fi
> +fi

It would be good to see some testing that this works on all
our random oddball hosts (MacOSX, for instance, which doesn't
use GNU ld) and architectures we apply this...

-- PMM