as reported by Daniel Johnson: "This may be too bleeding-edge for b.g.o, so I figured I'd shoot you an email instead. As of at least a couple weeks ago, glibc won't configure against GCC from subversion. The config line that fails is when it performs roughly the following action: gcc -v --help 2>&1 | grep z relro Prior to 4.5.1-pre9999, gcc's verbose --help would include ld's verbose --help, and it's ld's help that includes the relro information. Therefore, glibc's configure script should be patched to test ld instead of gcc for relro." I haven't done any investigating yet. Daniel, did you get a chance to?
hrm, I can't reproduce this. dirtyepic@halo ~ $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.1-pre9999/gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1-pre9999/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1_pre9999/work/gcc-4.5.1-9999/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.1-pre9999 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1-pre9999/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1-pre9999 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1-pre9999/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1-pre9999/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1-pre9999/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --with-ppl --with-cloog --enable-lto --disable-nls --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --enable-multilib --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --enable-cld --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1-pre9999/python --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo SVN' --enable-lto --disable-checking Thread model: posix gcc version 4.5.1-pre9999 20100618 (prerelease) rev. 160958 (Gentoo SVN) dirtyepic@halo ~ $ gcc -v --help 2>&1 | grep "z relro" -z relro Create RELRO program header -z relro Create RELRO program header -z relro Create RELRO program header
it seems to work for me here. let me know if there's something i'm missing.