Try -fstack-protector-strong first on Linux. If that fails,
fall back to -fstack-protector-all.
---
m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
index 196afa7..532a777 100644
--- a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
+++ b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
@@ -164,13 +164,14 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[
dnl "error: -fstack-protector not supported for this target [-Werror]"
;;
*-*-linux*)
- dnl Fedora only uses -fstack-protector, but doesn't seem to
- dnl be great overhead in adding -fstack-protector-all instead
+ dnl Prefer -fstack-protector-strong if it's available.
+ dnl There doesn't seem to be great overhead in adding
+ dnl -fstack-protector-all instead of -fstack-protector.
dnl
- dnl We also don't need ssp-buffer-size with -all,
+ dnl We also don't need ssp-buffer-size with -all or -strong,
dnl since functions are protected regardless of buffer size.
dnl wantwarn="$wantwarn --param=ssp-buffer-size=4"
- wantwarn="$wantwarn -fstack-protector-all"
+ wantwarn="$wantwarn -fstack-protector-strong"
;;
*-*-freebsd*)
dnl FreeBSD ships old gcc 4.2.1 which doesn't handle
@@ -201,6 +202,19 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[
gl_WARN_ADD([$w])
done
+ case $host in
+ *-*-linux*)
+ dnl Fall back to -fstack-protector-all if -strong is not available
+ case $WARN_CFLAGS in
+ *-fstack-protector-strong*)
+ ;;
+ *)
+ gl_WARN_ADD(["-fstack-protector-all"])
+ ;;
+ esac
+ ;;
+ esac
+
# Silence certain warnings in gnulib, and use improved glibc headers
AC_DEFINE([lint], [1],
[Define to 1 if the compiler is checking for lint.])
--
1.8.5.5