Disable looking for PaxCtl on non Linux/BSD distros (#49746)

diff --git a/eng/native/functions.cmake b/eng/native/functions.cmake
index f39fb67..3e01c27 100644 (file)
--- a/eng/native/functions.cmake
+++ b/eng/native/functions.cmake
@@ -392,19 +392,24 @@ endfunction()
 # - creating executable pages from anonymous memory,
 # - making read-only-after-relocations (RELRO) data pages writable again.
 function(disable_pax_mprotect targetName)
-  # Try to locate the paxctl tool. Failure to find it is not fatal,
-  # but the generated executables won't work on a system where PAX is set
-  # to prevent applications to create executable memory mappings.
-  find_program(PAXCTL paxctl)
-
-  if (NOT PAXCTL STREQUAL "PAXCTL-NOTFOUND")
-    add_custom_command(
-      TARGET ${targetName}
-      POST_BUILD
-      VERBATIM
-      COMMAND ${PAXCTL} -c -m $<TARGET_FILE:${targetName}>
-    )
-  endif()
+  # Disabling PAX hardening only makes sense in systems that use Elf image formats. Particularly, looking
+  # for paxctl in macOS is problematic as it collides with popular software for that OS that performs completely
+  # unrelated functionality. Only look for it when we'll generate Elf images.
+  if (CLR_CMAKE_HOST_LINUX OR CLR_CMAKE_HOST_FREEBSD OR CLR_CMAKE_HOST_NETBSD OR CLR_CMAKE_HOST_SUNOS)
+    # Try to locate the paxctl tool. Failure to find it is not fatal,
+    # but the generated executables won't work on a system where PAX is set
+    # to prevent applications to create executable memory mappings.
+    find_program(PAXCTL paxctl)
+
+    if (NOT PAXCTL STREQUAL "PAXCTL-NOTFOUND")
+        add_custom_command(
+        TARGET ${targetName}
+        POST_BUILD
+        VERBATIM
+        COMMAND ${PAXCTL} -c -m $<TARGET_FILE:${targetName}>
+        )
+    endif()
+  endif(CLR_CMAKE_HOST_LINUX OR CLR_CMAKE_HOST_FREEBSD OR CLR_CMAKE_HOST_NETBSD OR CLR_CMAKE_HOST_SUNOS)
 endfunction()
 
 if (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS "3.12")