Bug 2084460 - Clang builds do not pass -pie to the linker
Summary: Clang builds do not pass -pie to the linker
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: redhat-rpm-config
Version: 37
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Florian Festi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2022-05-12 08:00 UTC by Timm Bäder
Modified: 2023-12-05 21:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-12-05 21:06:58 UTC
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Description Timm Bäder 2022-05-12 08:00:59 UTC
Description of problem:

When building a package with clang via

%global toolchain clang

the objects are built without -pie. This leads to annocheck complaining
and other problems (such as mime types changing).



As far as I remember, the problem is that for GCC, -pie is appended to the LDFLAGS
via the redhat-hardened-ld spec file. But clang does not support spec files and we
only append -fPIE via redhat-hardened-clang.cfg.

IIRC unconditionally -pie when using clang does not always work. But I wonder if it's okay to do in Fedora, since packages opt-in to using clang anyway?


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add '%global toolchain clang' and a clang BuildRequires to any package
2. Build the package
3. Inspect the result with annocheck

Actual results:

When doing this e.g. with dwz (and removing the %check section):

Hardened: dwz: FAIL: fortify test because -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 was not present on the command line
Hardened: dwz: MAYB: test: lto because no indication that LTO was used
Hardened: dwz: FAIL: pie test because not built with '-Wl,-pie'
Hardened: Rerun annocheck with --verbose to see more information on the tests.
Hardened: dwz: Overall: FAIL.


Expected results:

Objects should be built with -pie, just like they do with GCC.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2022-08-09 13:15:38 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 37 development cycle.
Changing version to 37.

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2023-11-23 00:11:49 UTC
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Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2023-12-05 21:06:58 UTC
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