[Qemu-devel] Latest QEMU does not support --enable-check-utests on Debian with --enable-pie (default)

[Stefan Weil]

This is my configuration and the output from configure:

configure '--audio-card-list=ac97,es1370,sb16,cs4231a,adlib,gus,hda' 
'--audio-drv-list=alsa,sdl,oss,esd,pa' '--enable-mixemu' 
'--enable-check-utests' '--enable-vnc-thread'
ERROR
ERROR: User requested feature check
ERROR: configure was not able to find it
ERROR

This is what configure does internally:

gcc -fPIE -DPIE -m64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GNU_SOURCE 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wall -Wundef 
-Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing 
-fstack-protector-all -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wempty-body 
-Wnested-externs -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Winit-self 
-Wignored-qualifiers -Wold-style-declaration -Wold-style-definition 
-Wtype-limits -I/usr/include/libpng12 -o /tmp/qemu-conf--4272-.exe 
/tmp/qemu-conf--4272-.c -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -m64 -g -lcheck
/usr/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/libcheck.a(check.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when 
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/libcheck.a: could 
not read symbols: Bad value

When I add --disable-pie, configure works.

Regards,
Stefan Weil