Bug 924988 – app-emulation/qemu-8.2.1 fails to compile: ERROR: -static-pie not available due to missing toolchain support

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2024-02-19 16:18:41 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: app-emulation/qemu-8.2.1 fails to compile.
Discovered on: arm (internal ref: tinderbox_arm)

Info about the issue:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#CF0014

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-02-19 16:18:42 UTC]

Created attachment 885424 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 John Helmert III 2024-02-19 21:28:43 UTC]

ERROR: -static-pie not available due to missing toolchain support

That's weird, because the ebuild only adds that flag if the toolchain suports it:

    # We always want to attempt to build with PIE support as it results
    # in a more secure binary. But it doesn't work with static or if
    # the current GCC doesn't have PIE support.
    if [[ ${static_flag} != "none" ]] && use ${static_flag}; then
        conf_opts+=( --static --disable-pie )
    else
        tc-enables-pie && conf_opts+=( --enable-pie )
    fi

While the configure script has:

  if compile_prog "-Werror -fPIE -DPIE" "$pie_ldflags"; then
    pie="yes"
  elif test "$pie" = "yes"; then
    error_exit "-static-pie not available due to missing toolchain support"
  else
    echo "Disabling PIE due to missing toolchain support"
    pie="no"
  fi

Can you share the associated config.log?

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-02-20 09:04:30 UTC]

really strange because on the same environment I can't reproduce anymore. So I suppose that it was cause by something else.
Let's mark as WORKSFORME for now