The CFLAGS_NOPIE and LDFLAGS_NOPIE variables are used in pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile, which has nothing to do with the PIE setting of the main qemu executables.
This overrides any operating system default to build all executables as PIE, which is important for ROMs. Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> --- configure | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 99faf64a74..7a646ec007 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -2018,26 +2018,24 @@ if ! compile_prog "-Werror" "" ; then "Thread-Local Storage (TLS). Please upgrade to a version that does." fi -if test "$pie" != "no" ; then - cat > $TMPC << EOF +cat > $TMPC << EOF #ifdef __linux__ # define THREAD __thread #else # define THREAD #endif - static THREAD int tls_var; - int main(void) { return tls_var; } - EOF - # check we support --no-pie first... - if compile_prog "-Werror -fno-pie" "-no-pie"; then - CFLAGS_NOPIE="-fno-pie" - LDFLAGS_NOPIE="-nopie" - fi +# Check we support --no-pie first; we will need this for building ROMs. +if compile_prog "-Werror -fno-pie" "-no-pie"; then + CFLAGS_NOPIE="-fno-pie" + LDFLAGS_NOPIE="-no-pie" +fi + +if test "$pie" != "no" ; then if compile_prog "-fPIE -DPIE" "-pie"; then QEMU_CFLAGS="-fPIE -DPIE $QEMU_CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-pie $LDFLAGS" -- 2.20.1