Re: [PATCH 0/7] configure: Improve PIE and other linkage

[Fangrui Song]

On 2019-12-17, Richard Henderson wrote:
> This begins by dropping the -Ttext-segment stuff, which Fangrui Song
> correctly points out does not work with lld.  But it's also obsolete,
> so instead of adding support for lld's --image-base, remove it all.
>
> Then, remove some other legacy random addresses that were supposed
> to apply to softmmu, but didn't really make any sense, and aren't
> used anyway when PIE is used, which is the default with a modern
> linux distribution.
>
> Then, clean up some of the configure logic surrounding PIE, and its
> current non-application to non-x86.
>
> Finally, add support for static-pie linking.
>
>
> r~
>
>
> Richard Henderson (7):
>  configure: Drop adjustment of textseg
>  tcg: Remove softmmu code_gen_buffer fixed address
>  configure: Do not force pie=no for non-x86
>  configure: Always detect -no-pie toolchain support
>  configure: Unnest detection of -z,relro and -z,now
>  configure: Override the os default with --disable-pie
>  configure: Support -static-pie if requested
>
> accel/tcg/translate-all.c |  37 ++----------
> configure                 | 120 ++++++++++++--------------------------
> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.20.1

Thank you for the patch set. I hope this will make that lld qemu user
happy.

How will this patch set affect statically linked user mode binaries?
(qemu-user-static packages on Debian, CentOS, ...)