http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50342
--- Comment #7 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-09-09 18:56:19 UTC --- > Is there an approved way of getting CFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0" into the > configure process? (there isn't AFAICT a problem with the actual build). I've > tried > > ../gcc-4.6.1/configure host_configargs="CFLAGS=\"-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0\"" > ..... > > which seems to work but is I think undocumented? (and hairy) Try CC="gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0" $srcdir/configure > On the other hand, we could reconsider -fkeep-inline-functions in the > configure > scripts? The problem arises because the unsupported inlined builtin call is > (effectively) in <string.h>, so we don't need to actually call it. On Darwin, possibly, but otherwise I don't see any good reason to do that.