[augeas-devel] ./configure problem

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:40:48PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 10:09 +0100, Dean Wilson wrote:
> > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> The interesting thing is the error message just before in teh log you
> sent me:
> 
>         /usr/bin/ld: .libs/augtool: hidden symbol
>         `__stack_chk_fail_local'
>         in /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libssp_nonshared.a(libssp_nonshared_la-ssp-local.o) is referenced by DSO
>         
> Cribbing off a similar problem that libvirt had when people first tried
> to build it on Debian[1], can you try building from scratch with
> 
>         ./configure CFLAGS="-fno-stack-protector" 
>         make
>         make check
> 
> and see if that gets you any further ? If it does, I'll need to fix some
> of the autoconf macros.

The key to fixing this issue for libvirt was that we needed to use
AC_TRY_LINK instead of AC_TRY_COMPILE when probing compiler args
because -fstack-protector  compiler arg had link time implications

Dan.
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