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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTED] Replace --enable-static-pie with --disable-default-pie
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 05:22:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOq5-rMnMWRjX1sxRVpx1GEDsL3nT8LWU14fZFtLHjkQtA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211213030233.2286715-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org>

On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 7:03 PM Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha
<libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> Build glibc programs and tests as PIE by default and enable static-pie
> automatically if the architecture and toolchain supports it.
>
> Also add a new configuration option --disable-default-pie to prevent
> building programs as PIE.
>
> Only the following architectures now have PIE disabled by default
> because they do not work at the moment.  hppa, ia64, alpha and csky
> don't work because the linker is unable to handle a pcrel relocation

Please reference linker bugs here.

> generated from PIE objects.  The microblaze compiler is currently
> failing with an ICE.  GNU hurd tries to enable static-pie, which does
> not work and hence fails.  All these targets have default PIE disabled
> at the moment and I have left it to the target maintainers to enable PIE
> on their targets.
>
> build-many-glibcs runs clean for all targets.  I also tested x86_64 on
> Fedora and Ubuntu, to verify that the default build as well as
> --disable-default-pie work as expected with both system toolchains.
>
> Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
> Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>


-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-13 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-07  8:26 [PATCH] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-07 16:06 ` Florian Weimer
2021-12-07 16:21   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-07 16:30     ` Florian Weimer
2021-12-07 18:52 ` Joseph Myers
2021-12-07 20:13 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-12-08  4:34   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-08  6:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-10 17:35   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-10 19:28   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-12-13  3:02 ` [COMMITTED] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-13 13:22   ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2021-12-13 13:41     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-13 13:43       ` H.J. Lu
2021-12-13 14:28   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-13 15:29     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-12-16 19:26   ` Florian Weimer

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