Failure to build from source about esl

[bagel99]

I must admit, I had not tested "make boot" in a while. I did find an error not related to what you found. LLVM has changed the way one turns off inlining, so I had to remove the -I flag from Makefile. Other than that, it built find on Fedora 32 with gcc-12.2., llvm-14.0. What is different with your Ubuntu, newer gcc? What error did you get without the "--relocation-model=pic" flag to llc?

[tkoenig1]

The error in question is

/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccH9NUFl.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIE

and appears to be the result of a stupid decision by whowever maintains the gcc Ubuntu package to always enforce PIE. Stock gcc that I compile from source myself does not issue that error.

[bagel99]

I'm not sure that forceing PIE for all architectures won't break something, and I don't know how to test for when its needed, so I'll make people modify the Makefile when its need.
On another subject, can you test on other architectures such as aarch64 and/or powerpc?