[ipxe-devel] [syslinux] [PATCH] Fix gpxe compilation when gcc is patched to compile by default with -fPIE -Wl, -pie

[Michael Brown]

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2011 13:12:31 Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> +# Some widespread patched versions of gcc include -fPIE -Wl,-pie by
> +# default. gpxe does not support pie code in get_cpuinfo.
> +#
> +ifeq ($(CCTYPE),gcc)
> +PIE_TEST = $(CC) -fno-PIE -nopie -x c -c /dev/null \
> +		-o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
> +PIE_FLAGS := $(shell $(PIE_TEST) && $(ECHO) '-fno-PIE -nopie')
> +CFLAGS	+= $(PIE_FLAGS)
> +endif
> +

Applied to upstream iPXE, with modifications to fix building on unaffected 
systems:

  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/fe61f6d

Many thanks!

Michael