configure: Diagnose broken linkers directly

Currently if the user's compiler works for creating .o files but
their linker is broken such that compiling an executable from a
C file does not work, we will report a misleading error message
about the compiler not supporting __thread (since that happens
to be the first test we run which requires a working linker).
Explicitly check that compile_prog works as well as compile_object,
so that people whose toolchain setup is broken get a more helpful
error message.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 67801b06bb..2e8a672aeb 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1428,6 +1428,9 @@ if compile_object ; then
 else
     error_exit "\"$cc\" either does not exist or does not work"
 fi
+if ! compile_prog ; then
+    error_exit "\"$cc\" cannot build an executable (is your linker broken?)"
+fi
 
 # Check that the C++ compiler exists and works with the C compiler
 if has $cxx; then