glibc/sysdeps/i386/configure.ac

GLIBC_PROVIDES dnl See aclocal.m4 in the top level source directory.
# Local configure fragment for sysdeps/i386.

# We no longer support i386 since it lacks the atomic instructions
# required to implement NPTL threading.
if test "$config_machine" = i386; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([
*** ERROR: Support for i386 is deprecated.
*** Please use host i786, i686, i585 or i486.
*** For example: /src/glibc/configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu ..."])
fi

# The GNU C Library can't be built for i386.  There are several reasons for
# this restriction.  The primary reason is that i386 lacks the atomic
# operations required to support the current NPTL implementation.  While it is
# possible that such atomic operations could be emulated in the kernel to date
# no such work has been done to enable this.  Even with NPTL disabled you still
# have no atomic.h implementation.  Given the declining use of i386 we disable
# support for building with `-march=i386' or `-mcpu=i386.' We don't explicitly
# check for i386, instead we make sure the compiler has support for inlining
# the builtin __sync_val_compare_and_swap. If it does then we should have no
# problem building for i386.
LIBC_COMPILER_BUILTIN_INLINED(
  [__sync_val_compare_and_swap],
  [int a, b, c; __sync_val_compare_and_swap (&a, b, c);],
  [-O0],
  [libc_cv_unsupported_i386=no],
  [AC_MSG_ERROR([
*** Building with -march=i386/-mcpu=i386 is not supported.
*** Please use host i786, i686, i586, or i486.
*** For example: /source/glibc/configure CFLAGS='-O2 -march=i686' ...])])

dnl Check if linker can convert "movl main@GOT(%ebx), %eax" to
dnl "leal main@GOTOFF(%ebx), %eax" for static PIE.
if test "$static_pie" = yes; then
  AC_CACHE_CHECK(for linker static PIE support, libc_cv_ld_static_pie, [dnl
cat > conftest.s <<\EOF
	.text
	.global _start
_start:
	movl	_start@GOT(%ebx), %eax
EOF
  libc_cv_pie_option="-Wl,-pie"
  libc_cv_ld_static_pie=no
  if AC_TRY_COMMAND(${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS -nostartfiles -nostdlib $no_ssp $libc_cv_pie_option -o conftest conftest.s 1>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD); then
    if $READELF -r conftest | grep 'There are no relocations in this file.' > /dev/null; then
      libc_cv_ld_static_pie=yes
    fi
  fi
rm -f conftest*])
  if test "$libc_cv_ld_static_pie" != yes; then
    AC_MSG_ERROR([linker support for static PIE needed])
  fi
fi

dnl When multi-arch is enabled, all external functions must be called
dnl via PIC PLT in PIE, which requires setting up EBX register.
if test x"$multi_arch" != xno; then
  AC_DEFINE(NO_HIDDEN_EXTERN_FUNC_IN_PIE)
fi