On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:04:34PM +0100, IainS wrote: > Hi Jack, > > On 17 Jun 2011, at 03:21, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> >> The gcj compiler needs to pass -no_pie for linkage on darwin11 due to >> the new -pie >> default of the linker. The attached patch accomplishes this by passing >> -no_pie on SYSTEMSPEC >> for *-*-darwin[12]*. Since Darwin10 supports -no_pie in its linker, I >> included it in the >> triplet match to simplify the syntax. Bootstrap and tested on x86_64- >> apple-darwin11. >> Okay for gcc trunk? >> Jack >> >> 2011-06-16 Jack Howarth <howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> >> >> * libjava/configure.ac (SYSTEMSPEC): Pass -no_pie for darwin11. >> * libjava/configure: Regenerate. > > > I would like to see some more analysis of what the underlying reasons > for failure are.
Iain, I suspect these failures are related to those seen in the boehm-gc testsuite when those tests are built with the default -pie linker option. I'll have to repeat a build without the patch but a cursory examination suggests ecj1 is miscompiled with -pie. If I remove -no_pie from /sw/lib/gcc4.7/lib/libgcj.spec after building and installing gcc trunk, the crashes in gcj don't occur. IMHO, my patch is effectively doing the same thing that Mike checked in with... # Ensure we don't try and use -pie, as it is incompatible with pch. BOOT_LDFLAGS += `case ${host} in *-*-darwin[1][1-9]*) echo -Wl,-no_pie ;; esac;` The libjava build uses gcj.spec to build ecj1, etc and Mike's change is insufficient to cause -no_pie to be used for those cases (since those parts of the libjava bootstrap don't honor BOOT_LDFLAGS). Jack ps I'll repeat the bootstrap without my patch and open a PR for the gcj failure. However, I believe it was an exception failure which would place us in the system unwinder and that will be extremely difficult to debug outside of Apple. > > -fpie works fine with darwin 9 and darwin 10 libjava [XCode 3.1.4 and > 3.2.5 respectively, bootstrap w/4.2.1] > (modulo suppressing it when building test-suite .dylibs *** - which is a > testsuite options handling issue - not a fundamental problem). > > so: > > make -k check-target-libjava "RUNTESTFLAGS=--target_board=unix/-fpie\{- > m32,-m64\} " > > passes without regression (re the no pie case) given that pie is > suppressed for dylibs. > > ----- > > So is your proposed patch a work-around for (as yet unreleased) darwin > 11 tool-chain bugs or ... ? > > Iain > > === > **** > kludge to suppress pie for for dylibs (use in place of the darwin9.h > hunk from the attachment on PR49371). > > Index: gcc/config/darwin9.h > =================================================================== > --- gcc/config/darwin9.h (revision 175110) > +++ gcc/config/darwin9.h (working copy) > @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see > /* Tell collect2 to run dsymutil for us as necessary. */ > #define COLLECT_RUN_DSYMUTIL 1 > > +#undef PIE_SPEC > +#define PIE_SPEC \ > + "%{fpie|pie|fPIE: %{!Zdynamiclib: \ > + %{mdynamic-no-pic: %n'-mdynamic-no-pic' overrides '-pie', '-fpie' > or '-fPIE'; \ > + :-pie}}}" > + > #undef ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_COMMON > #define ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_COMMON(FILE, NAME, SIZE, ALIGN) \ > do { \