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Re: [PATCH]: Pass -no_pie on SYSTEMSPEC for darwin11
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 <howarth@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.
>
> -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).
Iain,
This change should be unncessary since -pie on the linker only operates
on executables (hence the name PIE).
Jack
>
> 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 { \