On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:25 AM, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can it be that the passing of the adjusted parameter "HOSTCFLAGS" has got a significant > influence (with unwanted side effects) in this use case? That's probably it. If I strip down your advanced original example to just make defconfig make HOSTCFLAGS=-S then I get a similar error: HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/basic/fixdep: 1: scripts/basic/fixdep: .file: not found scripts/basic/fixdep: 2: scripts/basic/fixdep: .comm: not found scripts/basic/fixdep: 3: scripts/basic/fixdep: .comm: not found scripts/basic/fixdep: 4: scripts/basic/fixdep: .comm: not found scripts/basic/fixdep: 5: scripts/basic/fixdep: .comm: not found scripts/basic/fixdep: 6: scripts/basic/fixdep: .section: not found and so forth. The problem is that, with -S, fixdep isn't build as an executable: jim@krebstar:~/linux-next/scripts/basic$ file fixdep fixdep: assembler source, ASCII text jim@krebstar:~/linux-next/scripts/basic$ more fixdep .file "fixdep.c" .comm insert_extra_deps,4,4 .comm target,8,8 .comm depfile,8,8 .comm cmdline,8,8 .section .rodata I'm guessing that in your original example you wanted to look at the assembly output gcc produced; you'd probably have better luck using objdump for that. -- Jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html