[PATCH v2 1/3] configure: use TEST_CC to check for --no-error-execstack

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue Dec 9 14:58:32 GMT 2025


The ld.lld does not support the --no-error-execstack option, and it is
required only to suppress the linker warning while building tests. A new
configure macro, LIBC_TEST_LINKER_FEATURE, is added to check for linker
features using TEST_CC instead of CC.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and aarch64-linux-gnu with gcc and
TEST_CC set to clang-18 and clan-21.

Reviewed-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
---
 aclocal.m4   | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 configure    |  9 ++++++---
 configure.ac |  6 +++---
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
index 5c25a71d8f..b32076d8d0 100644
--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -268,6 +268,38 @@ else
 fi
 AC_MSG_RESULT($libc_linker_feature)])
 
+dnl Check linker option support.
+dnl LIBC_TEST_LINKER_FEATURE([ld_option], [cc_option], [action-if-true], [action-if-false])
+AC_DEFUN([LIBC_TEST_LINKER_FEATURE],
+[AC_MSG_CHECKING([for linker that supports $1])
+libc_linker_feature=no
+cat > conftest.c <<EOF
+int _start (void) { return 42; }
+EOF
+saved_CC="$CC"
+CC="$TEST_CC"
+if AC_TRY_COMMAND([${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS $no_ssp
+		  $2 -nostdlib -nostartfiles
+		  -fPIC -shared -o conftest.so conftest.c
+		  1>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD])
+then
+  if ${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS $no_ssp $2 -nostdlib \
+      -nostartfiles -fPIC -shared -o conftest.so conftest.c 2>&1 \
+      | grep "warning: $1 ignored" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    true
+  else
+    libc_linker_feature=yes
+  fi
+fi
+rm -f conftest*
+if test $libc_linker_feature = yes; then
+  $3
+else
+  $4
+fi
+CC="$saved_CC"
+AC_MSG_RESULT($libc_linker_feature)])
+
 dnl Add a makefile variable, with value set from a shell string
 dnl (expanded by the shell inside double quotes), to config.make.
 dnl LIBC_CONFIG_VAR(make-variable, shell-value)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 9e79accc43..f93530f7ba 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ libc_cv_has_glob_dat
 libc_cv_fpie
 libc_cv_test_static_pie
 libc_cv_z_execstack
-libc_cv_no_error_execstack
+libc_cv_test_no_error_execstack
 ASFLAGS_config
 libc_cv_cc_with_libunwind
 libc_cv_insert
@@ -7142,6 +7142,8 @@ libc_linker_feature=no
 cat > conftest.c <<EOF
 int _start (void) { return 42; }
 EOF
+saved_CC="$CC"
+CC="$TEST_CC"
 if { ac_try='${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS $no_ssp
 		  -Wl,--no-error-execstack -nostdlib -nostartfiles
 		  -fPIC -shared -o conftest.so conftest.c
@@ -7162,10 +7164,11 @@ then
 fi
 rm -f conftest*
 if test $libc_linker_feature = yes; then
-  libc_cv_no_error_execstack=yes
+  libc_cv_test_no_error_execstack=yes
 else
-  libc_cv_no_error_execstack=no
+  libc_cv_test_no_error_execstack=no
 fi
+CC="$saved_CC"
 { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $libc_linker_feature" >&5
 printf "%s\n" "$libc_linker_feature" >&6; }
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 784e9e15a0..cf6ddd1d33 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1328,9 +1328,9 @@ if test $libc_cv_as_noexecstack = yes; then
 fi
 AC_SUBST(ASFLAGS_config)
 
-LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE([--no-error-execstack], [-Wl,--no-error-execstack],
-		    [libc_cv_no_error_execstack=yes], [libc_cv_no_error_execstack=no])
-AC_SUBST(libc_cv_no_error_execstack)
+LIBC_TEST_LINKER_FEATURE([--no-error-execstack], [-Wl,--no-error-execstack],
+		    [libc_cv_test_no_error_execstack=yes], [libc_cv_test_no_error_execstack=no])
+AC_SUBST(libc_cv_test_no_error_execstack)
 
 LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE([-z execstack], [-Wl,-z,execstack],
 		    [libc_cv_z_execstack=yes], [libc_cv_z_execstack=no])
-- 
2.43.0



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