Re: [Qemu-devel] [FYI] Need to do a full rebuild if you are on Linux x86 host

[Avi Kivity]

On 11/22/2011 12:01 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 10:41 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> On 11/22/11 01:25, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Due to this commit:
>>>
>>> commit 40d6444e91c6ab17e5e8ab01d4eece90cbc4afed
>>> Author: Avi Kivity<address@hidden>
>>> Date:   Tue Nov 15 20:12:17 2011 +0200
>>>
>>>      configure: build position independent executables on x86-Linux
>>> hosts
>>>
>>> PIE binaries cannot be linked with non-PIE binaries and make is not
>>> smart enough to rebuild when the CFLAGS have changed.
>>
>> Breaks build on RHEL-5 and probably also other not-so-recent linux
>> distros.
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>    CC    i386-softmmu/exec.o
>> [ ... ]
>>    LINK  i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386
>> /usr/bin/ld: exec.o: relocation R_X86_64_TPOFF32 against
>> `tls__cpu_single_env' can not be used when making a shared object;
>> recompile with -fPIC
>> exec.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[1]: *** [qemu-system-i386] Error 1
>> make: *** [subdir-i386-softmmu] Error 2
>
> It can be worked around by replacing "-fpie" with "-fpic" or (to avoid
> a rather bad performance degradation) "-fpic -ftls-model=initial-exec"
> but it's a bug in the linker and it should be fixed in RHEL:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10434 (upstream BZ)
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755872 (RHEL BZ)

I'll extend the configure build test to include a tls variable.  If
anyone's interested in tweaking it for older distros, that's for 1.1.

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