Hi, On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 05:22:41PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > We really need build-ids for various things. If the system compiler > doesn't generate build-ids warn and generate them anyway for both the > binaries and the tests.
I pushed this to master with one change: > +# We really want build-ids. Warn and force generating them if gcc was > +# configure without --enable-linker-build-id > +AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether the compiler generates build-ids], ac_cv_buildid, > [dnl > +AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()],[ac_cv_buildid=yes; readelf -n > conftest$EXEEXT | grep -q NT_GNU_BUILD_ID || > ac_cv_buildid=no],AC_MSG_FAILURE([unexpected compile failure]))]) > +if test "$ac_cv_buildid" = "no"; then > + AC_MSG_WARN([compiler doesn't generate build-id by default]) > + CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wl,--build-id" > +fi This should have been LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,--build-id" With this the testsuite now also passes when everything was build with a gcc that wasn't configured with --enable-linker-build-id (sadly the default is off). Cheers, Mark