For whatever reason this doesn't trigger normally but because compile_prog uses QEMU_CFLAGS we end up trying to build a -pie --no-pie build which confuses compilers on some non-x86 hosts.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> diff --git a/configure b/configure index 7860bbc3121..30aad233d17 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -2021,6 +2021,12 @@ static THREAD int tls_var; int main(void) { return tls_var; } EOF + # check we support --no-pie first... + if compile_prog "-Werror -fno-pie" "-no-pie"; then + CFLAGS_NOPIE="-fno-pie" + LDFLAGS_NOPIE="-nopie" + fi + if compile_prog "-fPIE -DPIE" "-pie"; then QEMU_CFLAGS="-fPIE -DPIE $QEMU_CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-pie $LDFLAGS" @@ -2036,11 +2042,6 @@ EOF pie="no" fi fi - - if compile_prog "-Werror -fno-pie" "-nopie"; then - CFLAGS_NOPIE="-fno-pie" - LDFLAGS_NOPIE="-nopie" - fi fi ########################################## -- 2.20.1