On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:04:47PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > MacOSX clang silently swallows unrecognized -f options when doing a link > with '-framework' also on the command line, so to detect support for > the various -fstack-protector options we must do a plain .c to .o compile, > not a complete compile-and-link. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
Hmm it worries me a bit that we aren't passing it to linker: might break some builds in case compiler has a working protector but linker doesn't. How about checking both do_cc and compile_prog here? > --- > This should be a pretty safe change and it prevents clang/MacOSX > builds from spewing a warning on every C file compilation, so I'd > like to get it into 2.0. > > configure | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/configure b/configure > index eb0e7bb..c85475f 100755 > --- a/configure > +++ b/configure > @@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ done > if test "$stack_protector" != "no" ; then > gcc_flags="-fstack-protector-strong -fstack-protector-all" > for flag in $gcc_flags; do > - if compile_prog "-Werror $flag" "" ; then > + if do_cc $QEMU_CFLAGS -Werror $flag -c -o $TMPO $TMPC ; then > QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS $flag" > LIBTOOLFLAGS="$LIBTOOLFLAGS -Wc,$flag" > break > -- > 1.8.5.4 > Long term we might want this: But I'm not sure it's a good idea to make this change so late. --> configure: check -c each time we run compiler Some warnings/errors only surface if you run compiler without a linker. Run both on each test. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> diff --git a/configure b/configure index eb0e7bb..8adc72b 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ compile_object() { compile_prog() { local_cflags="$1" local_ldflags="$2" + do_cc $QEMU_CFLAGS -c $local_cflags -o $TMPO $TMPC do_cc $QEMU_CFLAGS $local_cflags -o $TMPE $TMPC $LDFLAGS $local_ldflags }