Re: [Valgrind-developers] [valgrind] regtest: turn off exec stack warning

[Mark W. <ma...@kl...>]

Hi Philippe,

On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 12:29:34PM +0100, Philippe Waroquiers via Valgrind-developers wrote:
> The below change causes a build failure on the gcc110 compile farm
> 
> valgrind revision: valgrind-3.25.0.GIT-544d41e525-20241221
> C compiler:        gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)
> GDB:               GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-120.el7
> Assembler:         GNU assembler version 2.27-44.base.el7_9.1
> C library:         GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.17
> uname -mrs:        Linux 3.10.0-1160.105.1.el7.ppc64 ppc64
> Vendor version:    CentOS Linux 7 (AltArch)
> [...]
> /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--no-warn-execstack'

I saw Paul already added a configure check to see if the linker
supports --no-warn-execstack. Thanks Paul.

But this is a really old system. Do we really want to keep supporting
gcc 4.8 and binutils 2.27? Both are 9 years old. CentOS7 and CentOS8
stopped doing updates earlier this year.

Cheers,

Mark