I'm working with a project that uses auto tools. The project's posture is a tad bit weak, so I want to add some additional flags and options to harden it. The folks at the project told me to add my flags and options to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. It looks like autoconf is failing as shown below. When I look at the log and then the line number, I see the following: { { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: error: in \`$ac_pwd':" >&5 $as_echo "$as_me: error: in \`$ac_pwd':" >&2;} as_fn_error 77 "C compiler cannot create executables See \`config.log' for more details" "$LINENO" 5; } It appears a linker flag passed through the compiler driver was consumed by the assembler. What is the recommended way to work around this issue? Jeff $ export CFLAGS="-Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -Wstrict-overflow -Wtrampoline -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-z,noexecheap -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fPIE -pie -fstack-protector-all -DFORTIFY_SOURCES=2" $ export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... cfgaux/install-sh -c -d checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... no checking for awk... awk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/Users/jwalton/squid-3.3.9': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf