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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2022-04-11 11:30:31 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2022-04-22 10:59:03 +0200
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Default to --with-default-link=no (bug 25812)
This is necessary to place the libio vtables into the RELRO segment.
New tests elf/tst-relro-ldso and elf/tst-relro-libc are added to
verify that this is what actually happens.

The new tests fail on ia64 due to lack of (default) RELRO support
inbutils, so they are XFAILed there.
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@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ problem and suppress these constructs, so that the library will still be
 usable, but functionality may be lost---for example, you can't build a
 shared libc with old binutils.
 
+@item --with-default-link=@var{FLAG}
+With @code{--with-default-link=yes}, the build system does not use a
+custom linker script for linking shared objects.  The default for
+@var{FLAG} is the opposite, @samp{no}, because the custom linker script
+is needed for full RELRO protection.
+
 @item --with-nonshared-cflags=@var{cflags}
 Use additional compiler flags @var{cflags} to build the parts of the
 library which are always statically linked into applications and