build: check for build/link flags harder
authorDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:44:02 +0000 (07:44 -0500)
committerPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:56:22 +0000 (11:56 +1000)
Use AC_LINK_IFELSE instead of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE to test for flags that
might succeed during compilation but not during linking. An example is gcc
compiled with libssp support but gnu-ld without it. In this case
-fstack-protector works fine during compilation but fails during linking
as several internal helpers are missing.

Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
m4/attributes.m4

index 7e080da65d91992ac6b6b68f29dc8773595073c7..aa53ef238027826b3f8d2d24fea27cc18c6aee71 100644 (file)
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([CC_CHECK_FLAG_APPEND], [
                  AS_TR_SH([cc_cv_$2_$3]),
           [eval "AS_TR_SH([cc_save_$2])='${$2}'"
            eval "AS_TR_SH([$2])='-Werror $3'"
-           AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([int a = 0; int main(void) { return a; } ])],
-                                    [eval "AS_TR_SH([cc_cv_$2_$3])='yes'"],
-                                    [eval "AS_TR_SH([cc_cv_$2_$3])='no'"])
+           AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([int a = 0; int main(void) { return a; } ])],
+                          [eval "AS_TR_SH([cc_cv_$2_$3])='yes'"],
+                          [eval "AS_TR_SH([cc_cv_$2_$3])='no'"])
            eval "AS_TR_SH([$2])='$cc_save_$2'"])
 
   AS_IF([eval test x$]AS_TR_SH([cc_cv_$2_$3])[ = xyes],