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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Enable pie for powerpc and arm
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To: Dinar Valeev <k0da@opensuse.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Dinar Valeev <dvaleev@suse.de>, Dinar Valeev <dvaleev@suse.com>

On 11/04/2013 10:19 PM, Dinar Valeev wrote:
> From: Dinar Valeev <dvaleev@suse.de>
> 
> This patch enables pie for PowerPC and ARM architectures
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dinar Valeev <dvaleev@suse.com>
> ---
>  configure | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 91372f9..0130e7e 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -1297,7 +1297,7 @@ fi
>  
>  if test "$pie" = ""; then
>    case "$cpu-$targetos" in
> -    i386-Linux|x86_64-Linux|x32-Linux|i386-OpenBSD|x86_64-OpenBSD)
> +    i386-Linux|x86_64-Linux|x32-Linux|ppc*-Linux|arm*-Linux|aarch64*-Linux|i386-OpenBSD|x86_64-OpenBSD)

I'd much prefer that we have a blacklist than a whitelist for this.
Honestly, most ELF systems can support PIE, and we have very few
non-ELF systems to support.


r~