I brushed up the implementation in this version. In the previous RFC, CC_HAS_ was described by using 'option shell=', like this: config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR bool option shell="$CC -Werror -fstack-protector -c -x c /dev/null" After I thought a bit more, the following syntax is more grammatical, and flexible. config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR bool default $(shell $CC -Werror -fstack-protector -c -x c /dev/null) This version supports cc-option, so it can be written as: config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR bool default $(cc-option -fstack-protector) To support this in a clean way, I introduced a new concept 'function' like we see in Makefiles. $(shell ...) is a built-in function. $(cc-option ...) is implemented as macro (user-defined function). I also try cleaning of stack-protector, gcc-plugins since the Makefile is so dirty. Current limitations: Dependency on outside scripts. For example, scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protecter.sh is run from Kconfig. When the shell script is updated, should Kconfig be re-run automatically? Inter-option dependency: $(call cc-option,...) in Makefile accumulates added options to KBUILD_CFLAGS, but it is difficult to do it in Kconfig. If a compiler option check is dependent on another option, this is a difficult case. Let's see how significant it is. Functions are evaluated statically: Functions are only expanded when parsing the Kconfig. So, it can not refelect user configuration. If this is required, $(shell ) must be dynamically re-calculated depending on other symbols. But, this is difficult, and may cause performance issue. Masahiro Yamada (22): kbuild: remove kbuild cache kbuild: remove CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE support kconfig: add xstrdup() helper kconfig: set SYMBOL_AUTO to the symbol marked with defconfig_list kconfig: move and rename sym_expand_string_value() kconfig: reference environments directly and remove 'option env=' syntax kconfig: add function support and implement 'shell' function kconfig: add 'macro' keyword to support user-defined function kconfig: add 'cc-option' macro stack-protector: test compiler capability in Kconfig and drop AUTO mode kconfig: add 'shell-stdout' function kconfig: replace $UNAME_RELEASE with function call kconfig: expand environments/functions in (main)menu, comment, prompt kconfig: show compiler version text in the top comment kconfig: add CC_IS_GCC and GCC_VERSION kconfig: add CC_IS_CLANG and CLANG_VERSION gcov: remove CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT kcov: imply GCC_PLUGINS and GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV instead of select'ing them gcc-plugins: always build plugins with C++ gcc-plugins: move GCC version check for PowerPC to Kconfig gcc-plugins: test GCC plugin support in Kconfig gcc-plugins: enable GCC_PLUGINS for COMPILE_TEST Sami Tolvanen (1): kbuild: add clang-version.sh Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 8 - Kconfig | 4 +- Makefile | 103 ++---------- arch/Kconfig | 43 +++-- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/sh/Kconfig | 4 +- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 4 +- arch/tile/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/um/Kconfig.common | 4 - arch/x86/Kconfig | 12 +- arch/x86/um/Kconfig | 4 +- init/Kconfig | 44 +++--- kernel/gcov/Kconfig | 18 +-- kernel/gcov/Makefile | 2 - lib/Kconfig.debug | 7 +- scripts/Kbuild.include | 101 ++---------- scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins | 95 ++++------- scripts/clang-version.sh | 31 ++++ scripts/gcc-plugin.sh | 37 +---- scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile | 15 +- scripts/gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh | 7 +- scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh | 5 - scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 33 +--- scripts/kconfig/function.c | 251 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/kconfig/kconf_id.c | 2 +- scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.c | 2 +- scripts/kconfig/lkc.h | 6 +- scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h | 7 +- scripts/kconfig/menu.c | 6 +- scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 139 +++-------------- scripts/kconfig/util.c | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++-- scripts/kconfig/zconf.l | 40 ++++- scripts/kconfig/zconf.y | 48 +++--- 33 files changed, 687 insertions(+), 585 deletions(-) create mode 100755 scripts/clang-version.sh create mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/function.c -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html