test-*-check: Pass in *FLAGS and compile with them

These test-*-check scripts should compile "test" binaries in a way that
is as close to what autotools would do, since the goal is to make sure
that if we run the *-check script, they can correctly detect flaws in
binaries which are compiled by our autotools-based system.

Therefore, we should emulate what happens when the binary is linked in
autotools, meaning that for C binaries, we need to supply the CFLAGS,
CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS flags in that order.

Note to future developers: perhaps it'd be nice to have these
test-*-check scripts be part of configure.ac to avoid having to manually
replicate autoconf-like behaviour every time we find a discrepancy. Of
course, that would also mean you'd have to write more m4...

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py b/contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py
index 14058e2cc8..0af7cdf5e6 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Test script for security-check.py
 '''
 import os
 import subprocess
+from typing import List
 import unittest
 
 from utils import determine_wellknown_cmd
@@ -27,7 +28,16 @@ def clean_files(source, executable):
     os.remove(executable)
 
 def call_security_check(cc, source, executable, options):
-    subprocess.run([*cc,source,'-o',executable] + options, check=True)
+    # This should behave the same as AC_TRY_LINK, so arrange well-known flags
+    # in the same order as autoconf would.
+    #
+    # See the definitions for ac_link in autoconf's lib/autoconf/c.m4 file for
+    # reference.
+    env_flags: List[str] = []
+    for var in ['CFLAGS', 'CPPFLAGS', 'LDFLAGS']:
+        env_flags += filter(None, os.environ.get(var, '').split(' '))
+
+    subprocess.run([*cc,source,'-o',executable] + env_flags + options, check=True)
     p = subprocess.run(['./contrib/devtools/security-check.py',executable], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
     return (p.returncode, p.stdout.rstrip())