Bug 1278676

The errors are from a configure script. rpmbuild doesn't care about optflags. They are just passed to a configure script. A configure script is part of a package and not part of rpmbuild. So I am reassigning this to ibus-anthy package.

I think the package side has not changed anything.
This problem does not happen in Fedora 22 or older.
This problem happens in Fedora 23 or later.

If configure.ac includes "AC_PROG_CC", this problem happens:

- The tarball only includes configure.ac
% zcat ../SOURCES/a-1.5.8.tar.gz | tar tfv -
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2016-01-22 16:22 a-1.5.8/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1207 2016-01-22 16:21 a-1.5.8/configure.ac

- configure.ac has only "AC_PROG_CC" and "AC_INIT".
% cat ../BUILD/a-1.5.8/configure.ac 
AC_INIT([ibus-anthy], [ibus_anthy_version], [https://github.com/ibus/ibus-anthy/issues],[ibus-anthy])
AC_PROG_CC

- a.spec runs only "autoconf" and "%configure".
Name:           a
Version:        1.5.8

%prep
%setup -q

%build
autoreconf
%configure



Then this problem always happen:
% rpmbuild -bb --define "optflags -g" a.spec 
checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/a-1.5.8':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.969HDg (%build)


Why rpmbuild runs LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' forcibly?

The default CFLAGS is no problem:
CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic'

But If I change optflags, the problem happens.

I have no idea to fix this in each package side.

Yes, the root cause of this error is that you have '-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' in your LDFLAGS and you don't have its counterpart '-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1' in CFLAGS because you completely rewrote optflags with '--define "optflags -g"'. 

Maybe it would be better just to append to optflags instead of rewriting them. You can do this with '--define "optflags `rpm -E %{optflags}` -g"'. If you really want to rewrite optflags then you have to modify accordingly also %{__global_ldflags}. But I don't recommend completely rewrote optflags because then you will create a package which is against fedora rules.

> Why rpmbuild runs LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' forcibly?

Hardening all fedora packages [1] is a change which was announced, discussed and approved. Rpm team doesn't initiated nor performed this change. I am not entitled to revert this change. You can discuss your problem with owner of this change [1].

Because this is not a bug in rpm. I am closing this as not a bug.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org//wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages

(In reply to Ľuboš Kardoš from comment #3)
> You can do this with '--define "optflags `rpm -E %{optflags}` -g"'. If

The suggestion does not help my case since the default optflags includes "-O2".


> > Why rpmbuild runs LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' forcibly?
> 
> Hardening all fedora packages [1] is a change which was announced, discussed
> and approved. Rpm team doesn't initiated nor performed this change. I am not
> entitled to revert this change. You can discuss your problem with owner of
> this change [1].

OK, thanks.

> 
> Because this is not a bug in rpm. I am closing this as not a bug.
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org//wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages

(In reply to fujiwara from comment #4)
> (In reply to Ľuboš Kardoš from comment #3)
> > You can do this with '--define "optflags `rpm -E %{optflags}` -g"'. If
> 
> The suggestion does not help my case since the default optflags includes
> "-O2".

That's not problem, you can override it with another option -O. From gdb man:

If you use multiple -O options, with or without level numbers, the last such option is the one that is effective.

(In reply to Ľuboš Kardoš from comment #5)
> (In reply to fujiwara from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Ľuboš Kardoš from comment #3)
> > > You can do this with '--define "optflags `rpm -E %{optflags}` -g"'. If
> > 
> > The suggestion does not help my case since the default optflags includes
> > "-O2".
> 
> That's not problem, you can override it with another option -O. From gdb man:
> 
> If you use multiple -O options, with or without level numbers, the last such
> option is the one that is effective.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Probably I think it would be great to archive this way in Fedora wiki.

(In reply to Ľuboš Kardoš from comment #5)
> (In reply to fujiwara from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Ľuboš Kardoš from comment #3)
> > > You can do this with '--define "optflags `rpm -E %{optflags}` -g"'. If
> > 
> > The suggestion does not help my case since the default optflags includes
> > "-O2".
> 
> That's not problem, you can override it with another option -O. From gdb man:
> 
> If you use multiple -O options, with or without level numbers, the last such
> option is the one that is effective.

I think -O is still optimized. I need no -O.

> I think -O is still optimized. I need no -O.

Use -O0 (aka -O<zero>).

If adding '-O0' (-O followed by zero) doesn't disable optimization then there is a bug in gcc.

I mean try 'rpmbuild  --define "optflags `rpm -E %{optflags}` -g -O0" .....'

Thanks for the comments.
I have never used -O0, sorry.