On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 04:05:33PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>
> On 27/11/2016 17:28, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Building qemu fails in distributions where gcc enables PIE
> > by default (e.g. Debian unstable) with:
> > /usr/bin/ld: -r and -pie may not be used together
> >
> > -r and -pie cannot be used together in the linker,
> > and position independent is already relocatable.
> >
> > Use -r instead of -Wl,-r to avoid gcc passing -r to the
> > linker when PIE is enabled.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
>
> I think this is a bug in the linker. If the linker is producing
> relocatable objects by default, it has no reason to refuse -r. Have you
> tried asking the binutils folks about it too?
The linker knows nothing about this default, gcc is passing -pie
to the linker.
>...
> Paolo
>...
cu
Adrian
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