trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC && STATIC

nameif: glibc build fixlet

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/trylink b/scripts/trylink
index f57a8a160..283edfdbb 100755
--- a/scripts/trylink
+++ b/scripts/trylink
@@ -47,13 +47,30 @@ try() {
 }
 
 check_cc() {
-    if $CC $1 -shared -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-        echo "$1";
+    if $CC $1 -shared -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo "$1";
     else
-        echo "$2";
+        echo "$2";
     fi
 }
 
+check_libc_is_glibc() {
+    local tempname="/tmp/temp.$$.$RANDOM.c"
+    echo "\
+        #include <stdlib.h>
+        /* Apparently uclibc defines __GLIBC__ (compat trick?). Oh well. */
+        #if defined(__GLIBC__) && !defined(__UCLIBC__)
+        syntax error here
+        #endif
+        " >"$tempname"
+    if $CC "$tempname" -c -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo "$2";
+    else
+        echo "$1";
+    fi
+    rm "$tempname"
+}
+
 EXE="$1"
 CC="$2"
 LDFLAGS="$3"
@@ -64,6 +81,20 @@ LDLIBS="$6"
 # The -Wl,--sort-section option is not supported by older versions of ld
 SORT_SECTION=`check_cc "-Wl,--sort-section -Wl,alignment" ""`
 
+# Static linking against glibc produces buggy executables
+# (glibc does not cope well with ld --gc-sections).
+# See sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3400
+# Note that glibc is unsuitable for static linking anyway.
+# We are removing -Wl,--gc-sections from link command line.
+GC_SECTION=`(
+. ./.config
+if test x"$CONFIG_STATIC" = x"y"; then
+    check_libc_is_glibc "" "-Wl,--gc-sections"
+else
+    echo "-Wl,--gc-sections"
+fi
+)`
+
 # Sanitize lib list (dups, extra spaces etc)
 LDLIBS=`echo "$LDLIBS" | xargs -n1 | sort | uniq | xargs`
 
@@ -76,7 +107,7 @@ try $CC $LDFLAGS \
         -o $EXE \
         -Wl,--sort-common \
         $SORT_SECTION \
-        -Wl,--gc-sections \
+        $GC_SECTION \
         -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
         $l_list \
 || {
@@ -100,7 +131,7 @@ while test "$LDLIBS"; do
                 -o $EXE \
                 -Wl,--sort-common \
                 $SORT_SECTION \
-                -Wl,--gc-sections \
+                $GC_SECTION \
                 -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
                 $l_list
         if test $? = 0; then
@@ -129,7 +160,7 @@ if ! test -f busybox_ldscript; then
             -o $EXE \
             -Wl,--sort-common \
             $SORT_SECTION \
-            -Wl,--gc-sections \
+            $GC_SECTION \
             -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
             $l_list \
             -Wl,--warn-common \
@@ -151,7 +182,7 @@ else
             -o $EXE \
             -Wl,--sort-common \
             $SORT_SECTION \
-            -Wl,--gc-sections \
+            $GC_SECTION \
             -Wl,-T -Wl,busybox_ldscript \
             -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES $A_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
             $l_list \
@@ -207,7 +238,7 @@ if test "$CONFIG_FEATURE_SHARED_BUSYBOX" = y; then
             -o $EXE \
             -Wl,--sort-common \
             $SORT_SECTION \
-            -Wl,--gc-sections \
+            $GC_SECTION \
             -Wl,--start-group $O_FILES -Wl,--end-group \
             -L"$sharedlib_dir" -lbusybox \
             -Wl,--warn-common \
@@ -246,7 +277,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                 -o $EXE \
                 -Wl,--sort-common \
                 $SORT_SECTION \
-                -Wl,--gc-sections \
+                $GC_SECTION \
                 -L"$sharedlib_dir" -lbusybox \
                 -Wl,--warn-common \
         || {