On 03/10/2015 08:23 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
gcc 4.9.2 treats -nopie as an error: cc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-nopie’ clang 3.5.0 treats -nopie as a warning: clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-nopie' The causes ./configure to fail with clang: ERROR: configure test passed without -Werror but failed with -Werror. Make the -nopie test use -Werror so that compile_prog works for both gcc and clang. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> --- configure | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 7ba4bcb..4f9f689 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ EOF fi fi - if compile_prog "-fno-pie" "-nopie"; then + if compile_prog "-Werror -fno-pie" "-nopie"; then CFLAGS_NOPIE="-fno-pie" LDFLAGS_NOPIE="-nopie" fi
Oh, clang doesn't support -nopie but doesn't fail, so we have to force it to in order to get proper configuration.
Makes sense. Reviewed-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com>