Re: [PATCH v2] BaseTools/GCC ARM/AARCH64: Force disable PIE

[Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>]

On 24 May 2017 at 13:26, dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> wrote:
> v2:
> * Replace -no-pie w/ -static for compat with GCC 4.9
>

For my understanding, could you elaborate on what goes wrong if you
omit -static / -no-pie?

> After Debian's toolchain switched to PIE by default, our edk2 builds began
> to fail to build (GCC49 w/ gcc 6.3). This patch fixes the build by forcing
> off PIE for both ARM and AARCH64 builds.
>
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
> Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
> ---
>  BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template b/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
> index 4b1b7b548c..fc0bf2ff70 100755
> --- a/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
> +++ b/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
> @@ -4339,14 +4339,14 @@ DEFINE GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS            = -g -Os -fshort-wchar -fno-builtin -fno-stri
>  DEFINE GCC_IA32_CC_FLAGS           = DEF(GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS) -m32 -malign-double -freorder-blocks -freorder-blocks-and-partition -O2 -mno-stack-arg-probe
>  DEFINE GCC_X64_CC_FLAGS            = DEF(GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS) -mno-red-zone -Wno-address -mno-stack-arg-probe
>  DEFINE GCC_IPF_CC_FLAGS            = DEF(GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS) -minline-int-divide-min-latency
> -DEFINE GCC_ARM_CC_FLAGS            = DEF(GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS) -mlittle-endian -mabi=aapcs -fno-short-enums -funsigned-char -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fomit-frame-pointer -Wno-address -mthumb -mfloat-abi=soft
> +DEFINE GCC_ARM_CC_FLAGS            = DEF(GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS) -mlittle-endian -mabi=aapcs -fno-short-enums -funsigned-char -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fomit-frame-pointer -Wno-address -mthumb -mfloat-abi=soft -fno-pie
>  DEFINE GCC_ARM_CC_XIPFLAGS         = -mno-unaligned-access
> -DEFINE GCC_AARCH64_CC_FLAGS        = DEF(GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS) -mlittle-endian -fno-short-enums -fverbose-asm -funsigned-char  -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wno-address -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-pic
> +DEFINE GCC_AARCH64_CC_FLAGS        = DEF(GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS) -mlittle-endian -fno-short-enums -fverbose-asm -funsigned-char  -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wno-address -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-pic -fno-pie
>  DEFINE GCC_AARCH64_CC_XIPFLAGS     = -mstrict-align
>  DEFINE GCC_DLINK_FLAGS_COMMON      = -nostdlib --pie
>  DEFINE GCC_DLINK2_FLAGS_COMMON     = -Wl,--script=$(EDK_TOOLS_PATH)/Scripts/GccBase.lds
>  DEFINE GCC_IA32_X64_DLINK_COMMON   = DEF(GCC_DLINK_FLAGS_COMMON) --gc-sections
> -DEFINE GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON= -Wl,--emit-relocs -nostdlib -Wl,--gc-sections -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT) -Wl,-e,$(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT),-Map,$(DEST_DIR_DEBUG)/$(BASE_NAME).map
> +DEFINE GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON= -Wl,--emit-relocs -nostdlib -Wl,--gc-sections -static -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT) -Wl,-e,$(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT),-Map,$(DEST_DIR_DEBUG)/$(BASE_NAME).map
>  DEFINE GCC_ARM_DLINK_FLAGS         = DEF(GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON) -z common-page-size=0x20
>  DEFINE GCC_AARCH64_DLINK_FLAGS     = DEF(GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON) -z common-page-size=0x20
>  DEFINE GCC_IA32_X64_ASLDLINK_FLAGS = DEF(GCC_IA32_X64_DLINK_COMMON) --entry _ReferenceAcpiTable -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT)
> --
> 2.11.0
>