With BR2_RELRO_PARTIAL or BR2_RELRO_FULL, our toolchain wrapper will
forcibly add -Wl,-z,relro to any call to the actual compiler. This
usually works OK, because gcc will only use those options it needs for
the compile step it has to carry: pre-processing, compiling, assembling,
or linking, and ignore those options it does not need.
Excpt in one case: when -v is passed standalone, with no input file,
then gcc will falsely believe it has to do a link stage;
$ gcc -Wl,-z,relro -v
[...]
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o: in function `_start':
(.text+0x24): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Fixing that in our wrapper will not be easy, because we'd have to detect
there is no input file. Doing so would probably require we support
almost all gcc options to differentiate between the parameter of an
option (e.g. -I /some/path) from an actual inpout file. This would not
be very robust, and would have a high risk od breaking when we introduce
the next gcc version.
Since it seems that only rhash is affected, due to its inventive,
custom, hand-written configure script, we just patch it to be a bit more
robust in the face of a compiler that could not accept -v, and fallback
to --version.
Fixes:
- http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/8605c16cc28316954ce8b9dcc266974390c5da20
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- retain "$CC -v" as default, fallback to "$CC --version", in the hope
that it stands better chance with upstream
- write a commit log to explain the actual root-cause of the build
failure
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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