Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Makefile: infer CROSS_COMPILE from SRCARCH for LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

[Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 4:58 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 7:43 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 1:05 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > We do most of the other heavy lifting in this area in Kconfig anyway,
> > why not add that compiler choice?
> >
> > Obviously it would be gated by the tests to see which compilers are
> > _installed_ (and that they are valid versions), so that it doesn't ask
> > stupid things ("do you want gcc or clang" when only one of them is
> > installed and/or viable).
>
> I don't see a good way of making Kconfig options both select the
> compiler and defining variables based on the compiler, since that
> would mean teaching Kconfig about re-evaluating all compiler
> dependent settings whenever the first option changes.
>
> I do have another idea that I think would work though.
>
> > Hmm? So then any "LLVM=1" thing would be about the "make config"
> > stage, not the actual build stage.
> >
> > (It has annoyed me for years that if you want to cross-compile, you
> > first have to do "make ARCH=xyz config" and then remember to do "make
> > ARCH=xyz" for the build too, but I cross-compile so seldom that I've
> > never really cared).
>
> The best thing that I have come up with is a pre-configure step, where
> an object tree gets seeded with a makefile fragment that gets included
> for any 'make' invocation. This would set 'ARCH=', 'CROSS_COMPILE',
> 'CC=' and possibly any other option that gets passed to 'make' as
> a variable and has to exist before calling 'make *config'.


There is no need to add a hook to include such makefile fragment(s).

Quite opposite, you can put your Makefile (in a different filename)
that includes the top Makefile.


I think this is what people are already doing:


GNU Make looks for 'GNUmakefile', 'makefile', and 'Makefile'
in this order.


So, you can put 'GNUmakefile' with your favorite setups.


$ cat GNUmakefile
ARCH=arm64
CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
CC=clang
include Makefile



Then, you can simply do "make defconfig; make"
for building arm64 with clang.



If you want to have multiple setups, you can put
custom Makefiles, and select by the -f option.


For example,



$ cat Makefile-arm64
ARCH=arm64
CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
include Makefile


$ cat  Makefile-arm64-llvm
ARCH=arm64
CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
LLVM=1
include Makefile


$ cat Makefile-arm
ARCH=arm
CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
include Makefile


Then,

$ make -f Makefile-arm64  defconfig all   -j24

$ make -f Makefile-arm64-llvm   defconfig all -j24

$ make -f Makefile-arm  defconfig all -j24


You can use TAB-completion for the 'Makefile-*' part,
so you can save many typings than you do
make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- ...



It is just a tip to ease your life without any change to upstream.
Maybe, some people might be doing that.




>
> This is probably the easiest part here, and it lets you set up multiple
> object directories in which you can then do
>
> make O=obj-x86 defconfig vmlinux modules -skj32
> make O=obj-x86-clang
> make O=obj-arm64 randconfig
> ...
>
> without ever having to type the additional CC/CROSS_COMPILE/LLVM
> variables again.
>
> One step further is the script that automatically finds a working toolchain
> for a given architecture and sets up that object directory accordingly,
> or even downloads a working cross-toolchain from kernel.org when
> asked to do that.


I saw Intel's 0-day bot attached a shell script to download and
set up cross compilers.
(make.cross)




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada