commit 484d90eec884d814b005c9736bcf3fd018acba65
author Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com> Fri Aug 10 11:49:06 2012 -0700
committer H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Fri Aug 10 16:12:30 2012 -0700
tree 69bbb6e3226d966e59aae0814eaccd8bd41ab1f0
parent c6fd893da927c6cefb2ece22402765379921a834

x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic

GCC built with nonstandard options can enable -fpic by default.
We never want this for 32-bit kernels and it will break the build.

[ hpa: Notably the Android toolchain apparently does this. ]

Change-Id: Iaab7d66e598b1c65ac4a4f0229eca2cd3d0d2898
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344624546-29691-1-git-send-email-andrew.p.boie@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

arch/x86/Makefile

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index b0c5276..682e9c2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
 
         KBUILD_CFLAGS += -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return
 
+        # Never want PIC in a 32-bit kernel, prevent breakage with GCC built
+        # with nonstandard options
+        KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-pic
+
         # prevent gcc from keeping the stack 16 byte aligned
         KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2)