1 GLIBC_PROVIDES dnl See aclocal.m4 in the top level source directory.
2 # Local configure fragment for sysdeps/i386.
4 # We no longer support i386 since it lacks the atomic instructions
5 # required to implement NPTL threading.
6 if test "$config_machine" = i386; then
8 *** ERROR: Support for i386 is deprecated.
9 *** Please use host i786, i686, i585 or i486.
10 *** For example: /src/glibc/configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu ..."])
13 # The GNU C Library can't be built for i386. There are several reasons for
14 # this restriction. The primary reason is that i386 lacks the atomic
15 # operations required to support the current NPTL implementation. While it is
16 # possible that such atomic operations could be emulated in the kernel to date
17 # no such work has been done to enable this. Even with NPTL disabled you still
18 # have no atomic.h implementation. Given the declining use of i386 we disable
19 # support for building with `-march=i386' or `-mcpu=i386.' We don't explicitly
20 # check for i386, instead we make sure the compiler has support for inlining
21 # the builtin __sync_val_compare_and_swap. If it does then we should have no
22 # problem building for i386.
23 LIBC_COMPILER_BUILTIN_INLINED(
24 [__sync_val_compare_and_swap],
25 [int a, b, c; __sync_val_compare_and_swap (&a, b, c);],
27 [libc_cv_unsupported_i386=no],
29 *** Building with -march=i386/-mcpu=i386 is not supported.
30 *** Please use host i786, i686, i586, or i486.
31 *** For example: /source/glibc/configure CFLAGS='-O2 -march=i686' ...])])
33 dnl Check if linker can convert "movl main@GOT(%ebx), %eax" to
34 dnl "leal main@GOTOFF(%ebx), %eax" for static PIE.
35 if test "$static_pie" = yes; then
36 AC_CACHE_CHECK(for linker static PIE support, libc_cv_ld_static_pie, [dnl
37 cat > conftest.s <<\EOF
41 movl _start@GOT(%ebx), %eax
43 libc_cv_pie_option="-Wl,-pie"
44 libc_cv_ld_static_pie=no
45 if AC_TRY_COMMAND(${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS -nostartfiles -nostdlib $no_ssp $libc_cv_pie_option -o conftest conftest.s 1>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD); then
46 if $READELF -r conftest | grep 'There are no relocations in this file.' > /dev/null; then
47 libc_cv_ld_static_pie=yes
51 if test "$libc_cv_ld_static_pie" != yes; then
52 AC_MSG_ERROR([linker support for static PIE needed])
56 dnl When multi-arch is enabled, all external functions must be called
57 dnl via PIC PLT in PIE, which requires setting up EBX register.
58 if test x"$multi_arch" != xno; then
59 AC_DEFINE(NO_HIDDEN_EXTERN_FUNC_IN_PIE)