'-Wl,--entry=efi_main',
'-Wl,--fatal-warnings',
- # These flags should be passed by -static-pie, but seem to be missing sometimes.
- '-Wl,--no-dynamic-linker',
- '-z', 'text',
+ # These flags should be passed by -static-pie, but for whatever reason the flag translation
+ # is not enabled on all architectures. Not passing `-static` would just allow the linker to
+ # use dynamic libraries, (which we can't/don't use anyway). But if `-pie` is missing and the
+ # gcc build does not default to `-pie` we get a regular (no-pie) binary that will be
+ # rightfully rejected by elf2efi. Note that meson also passes `-pie` to the linker driver,
+ # but it is overridden by our `-static-pie`. We also need to pass these directly to the
+ # linker as `-static`+`-pie` seem to get translated differently.
+ '-Wl,-static,-pie,--no-dynamic-linker,-z,text',
# EFI has 4KiB pages.
'-z', 'common-page-size=4096',