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Commit c6707fde authored by Jiri Olsa's avatar Jiri Olsa Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf tools: Fix up build in hardnened environments



On Fedora systems the perl and python CFLAGS/LDFLAGS include the
hardened specs from redhat-rpm-config package. We apply them only for
perl/python objects, which makes them not compatible with the rest of
the objects and the build fails with:

  /usr/bin/ld: perf-in.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -f
+PIC
  /usr/bin/ld: libperf.a(libperf-in.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.text' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile w
+ith -fPIC
  /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[2]: *** [Makefile.perf:507: perf] Error 1
  make[1]: *** [Makefile.perf:210: sub-make] Error 2
  make: *** [Makefile:69: all] Error 2

Mainly it's caused by perl/python objects being compiled with:

  -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1

which prevent the final link impossible, because it will check
for 'proper' objects with following option:

  -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204082437.GC30564@krava
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent de3d0f12
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