[libvirt] [PATCH v2] Check for --no-copy-dt-needed linker flag

[Eric Blake]

On 08/19/2013 12:07 PM, Guido Günther wrote:

>>> +    NO_INDIRECT_LDFLAGS=
>>> +    `$LD --help 2>&1 | grep -- "--no-copy-dt-needed-entries" >/dev/null` && \
>>
>> Doesn't do what you think (it tries to execute the output of grep -
>> which is thankfully empty on both success and failure).  Also wastes a
>> fork on grep, compared to the simpler:
> 
> I was looking following virt-linker-relro.m4 and I'm getting the correct
> result since the output is always empty but for the non matching case
> grep exits with 1. However
> 
>>
>> case `$LD --help 2>&1` in
>>   *--no-copy-dt-needed-entries*) NO_INDIRECT_LDFLAGS=... ;;
>> esac
> 
> this looks nicer.

Oh sure - blame copy-and-paste of bad habits :)

>> Why aren't you building this directly into $(AM_LDFLAGS) once, rather
>> than having to copy it into each and every library recipe?
>>
>> Why only src/ and tests/? What about tools/ and daemon/?
> 
> Again following the above example. I'll come up with a v3.

For a v3, it might be nice to have two patches - one that cleans up the
bad habits of RELRO handling, and the second that extends it with the
cleaner idioms.  Thanks for putting up with me :)

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 621 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/attachments/20130819/67341878/attachment-0001.sig>