Some options checked in this loop are needing linking to find out if the option can be used or not e.g. -fstack-protector which needs libssp to be staged and available for compiler to link against Therefore we change the compile only check to compile and link check Signed-off-by: Khem Raj Upstream-Status: Pending Index: rpm-5.4.14/configure.ac =================================================================== --- rpm-5.4.14.orig/configure.ac +++ rpm-5.4.14/configure.ac @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ dnl # GNU GCC (usually "gcc") my_save_cflags="$CFLAGS" CFLAGS=$c AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether GCC supports $c]) - AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([])], + AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([])], [AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])] [my_cflags=$c], [AC_MSG_RESULT([no])]