[PATCH v2 2/6] ld: Pass $NOPIE_CFLAGS and $NOPIE_LDFLAGS to test pr19719

[Jan Beulich]

On 24.03.2025 17:19, Jens Remus wrote:
> On 24.03.2025 17:07, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 21.03.2025 17:58, Jens Remus wrote:
>>> Linker test "pr19719 fun defined" (non PIE) fails on s390x on Fedora 41
>>> but not on Ubuntu 24.10.  The reason is that GCC on Ubuntu is configured
>>> with --enable-default-pie, so that it defaults to compile with -fPIE
>>> and link with -pie, which hides the test fail.
>>
>> I'm confused: Generally I'd expect all tests to pass. Yet "hides the test
>> fail" suggests the test is actually "expected" to fail on, however without
>> it being an xfail. What am I missing?
> 
> This test currently fails on s390x on distributions that configure GCC
> without "--enable-default-pie", but does not on distributions that do.
> As far as I can tell the test expects to be linked as PDE, but gets
> linked as PIE if GCC is configured with with "--enable-default-pie".
> For PDE this is a known test fail on s390x and I am working on resolving
> all of the ld testsuite fails on s390x. Before that I would like to
> make the test run deterministic.

I'd like to leave approval to an s390x maintainer then.

Jan