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Stop the linker folding main() into a skipped test on macOS 

When a test is configured out, its entry function compiles down to
"return 77", the automake skip code, and the main() that forwards to it
inlines to the same two instructions. Apple's ld folds the two identical
bodies together and then writes LC_MAIN entryoff 0, so the binary starts
executing at the Mach-O header and dies with SIGILL instead of skipping.
tests/kex.test, tests/api.test and tests/auth.test all hit this under
--enable-all CPPFLAGS=-DWOLFSSH_TEST_BLOCK, and kex.test hits it again
under --disable-server.

Probe for -Wl,-no_deduplicate and add it to AM_LDFLAGS when the linker
takes it. GNU ld rejects the flag, so the check leaves Linux alone.

Making the skipped body differ does not help: anything added to the entry
function inlines into main() and the two fold again.
pull/1239/head
John Safranek 2026-08-13 14:56:45 -07:00 committed by philljj
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commit 3d77ce5851
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@ -388,6 +388,15 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_KEYBOARD_INTERACTIVE],[test "x$ENABLED_KEYBOARD_INTERACTIV
AX_HARDEN_CC_COMPILER_FLAGS
dnl A test that is configured out compiles down to "return 77", the automake
dnl skip code, and so does the main() that forwards to it. Apple's linker folds
dnl the two identical bodies together, then writes LC_MAIN entryoff 0, so the
dnl binary starts executing at the Mach-O header and dies with SIGILL instead
dnl of skipping. Turn the folding off where the linker understands the flag;
dnl GNU ld rejects it and is unaffected.
AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([-Wl,-no_deduplicate],
[AM_LDFLAGS="$AM_LDFLAGS -Wl,-no_deduplicate"])
CREATE_HEX_VERSION
AC_SUBST([AM_CPPFLAGS])
AC_SUBST([AM_CFLAGS])