From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: Remove '--gcc-toolchain' flag
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 01:21:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNAQ6goFdV=HuCdiCsr-PSUGxtafHZAa=p=96ieFyFHL8yg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210309205915.2340265-1-nathan@kernel.org>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:59 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> This flag was originally added to allow clang to find the GNU cross
> tools in commit 785f11aa595b ("kbuild: Add better clang cross build
> support"). This flag was not enough to find the tools at times so
> '--prefix' was added to the list in commit ef8c4ed9db80 ("kbuild: allow
> to use GCC toolchain not in Clang search path") and improved upon in
> commit ca9b31f6bb9c ("Makefile: Fix GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR prefix for Clang
> cross compilation"). Now that '--prefix' specifies a full path and
> prefix, '--gcc-toolchain' serves no purpose because the kernel builds
> with '-nostdinc' and '-nostdlib'.
>
> This has been verified with self compiled LLVM 10.0.1 and LLVM 13.0.0 as
> well as a distribution version of LLVM 11.1.0 without binutils in the
> LLVM toolchain locations.
>
> Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97902
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> * Improve commit message (add history behind flag and link to Fangrui's
> documentation improvement).
Both applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks.
> I did not carry tags forward so that people could re-review and test.
>
> Makefile | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 31dcdb3d61fa..182e93d91198 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -568,10 +568,6 @@ ifneq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
> CLANG_FLAGS += --target=$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%))
> GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR := $(dir $(shell which $(CROSS_COMPILE)elfedit))
> CLANG_FLAGS += --prefix=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR)$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE))
> -GCC_TOOLCHAIN := $(realpath $(GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR)/..)
> -endif
> -ifneq ($(GCC_TOOLCHAIN),)
> -CLANG_FLAGS += --gcc-toolchain=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN)
> endif
> ifneq ($(LLVM_IAS),1)
> CLANG_FLAGS += -no-integrated-as
>
> base-commit: a38fd8748464831584a19438cbb3082b5a2dab15
> --
> 2.31.0.rc1
>
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-15 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-02 21:06 [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Remove '--gcc-toolchain' flag Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-02 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: Only specify '--prefix=' when building with clang + GNU as Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-02 22:02 ` Fangrui Song
2021-03-02 22:09 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-03-02 22:40 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-03-09 19:55 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-09 19:58 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-09-29 17:26 ` kernel test robot
2021-09-29 19:32 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-02 21:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Remove '--gcc-toolchain' flag Fangrui Song
2021-03-03 8:33 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-02 22:33 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-03-03 3:25 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-03-03 14:22 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-03-09 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 " Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-09 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Makefile: Only specify '--prefix=' when building with clang + GNU as Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-09 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: Remove '--gcc-toolchain' flag Fangrui Song
2021-03-15 16:21 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2021-03-15 16:41 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-03-16 15:36 ` Masahiro Yamada
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