From: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
The probe we do to determine what flags to use to make the usermode
executables use a non-default text address has some flaws:
* we run it even if we're not building the user binaries
* we don't expect "ld --verbose" to fail
The combination of these two results in a harmless but
ugly "ld: unknown option: --verbose" message when running
configure on OSX.
Improve the probe to only run when we need it and to fail
nicely when even the backstop 'ld --verbose' approach fails.
Reported-by: Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
---
configure | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 10cb212..7beefcd 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4700,7 +4700,7 @@ if test "$cpu" = "s390x" ; then
fi
# Probe for the need for relocating the user-only binary.
-if test "$pie" = "no" ; then
+if ( [ "$linux_user" = yes ] || [ "$bsd_user" = yes ] ) && [ "$pie" = no ];
then
textseg_addr=
case "$cpu" in
arm | i386 | ppc* | s390* | sparc* | x86_64 | x32)
@@ -4722,6 +4722,16 @@ EOF
# In case ld does not support -Ttext-segment, edit the default linker
# script via sed to set the .text start addr. This is needed on FreeBSD
# at least.
+ if ! $ld --verbose >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ error_exit \
+ "We need to link the QEMU user mode binaries at a" \
+ "specific text address. Unfortunately your linker" \
+ "doesn't support either the -Ttext-segment option or" \
+ "printing the default linker script with --verbose." \
+ "If you don't want the user mode binaries, pass the" \
+ "--disable-user option to configure."
+ fi
+
$ld --verbose | sed \
-e '1,/==================================================/d' \
-e '/==================================================/,$d' \
--
2.6.2
