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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> --- configure | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index cbde833f6e..7ba18783cb 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -2107,26 +2107,24 @@ 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" QEMU_LDFLAGS="-pie $QEMU_LDFLAGS" -- 2.20.1
