On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The main Linux Makefiles and the tools sub-Makefiles have different
> conventions for passing in CC / CFLAGS.
>
> Here's brief summary for the kernel:
> * CC: target C compiler (must be passed as an argument to make to
> override)
> * HOSTCC: host C compiler (must be passed as an argument to make to
> override)
> * CFLAGS: ignored (kernel manages its own CFLAGS)
> * KCFLAGS: extra cflags for the target (expected as an env var)
> * HOSTCFLAGS: host C compiler flags (not modifiable by the caller of
> make)
>
> Here's a brief summary for the tools:
> * CC: host C compiler (must be passed as an argument to make to
> override)
> * CFLAGS: base arguments for the host C compiler which are added to by
> sub builds (expected as an env var)
>
> When the main kernel Makefile calls into the tools Makefile, it should
> adapt things from its syntax to the tools Makefile syntax.
>
> If we don't do this, we have a few issues:
> * If someone wants to user another compiler (like clang, maybe) for
> hostcc then the tools will still be compiled with gcc.
> * If you happen to be building and you left ${CFLAGS} set to something
> random (maybe it matches ${CC}, the _target_ C compiler, not the
> _host_ C compiler) then this random value will be used to compile
> the tools.
>
> In any case, it seems like it makes sense to pass CC, CFLAGS, and
> similar properly into the tools Makefile.
>
> NOTE: in order to do this properly, we need to add some new
> definitions of HOSTAS and HOSTLD into the main kernel Makefile. If we
> don't do this and someone overrides "AS" or "LD" on the command line
> then those (which were intended for the target) will be used to build
> host side tools. We also make up some imaginary "HOSTASFLAGS" and
> "HOSTLDFLAGS". Someone could specify these, but if they don't at
> least these blank variables will properly clobber ASFLAGS and LDFLAGS
> from the kernel.
>
> This was discovered in the Chrome OS build system where CFLAGS (an
> environment variable) was accidentally left pointing to flags that
> would be an appropriate match to CC. The kernel didn't use these
> CFLAGS so it was never an issue. Turning on STACKVALIDATION, however,
> suddenly invoked a tools build that blew up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Still not sure if I'd want to go that far. Just clearing out CFLAGS
would have fixed my problem, and I start to realize that I am more of
a minimalist when it comes to kernel changes.
Anyway, not that it means much,
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ I didn't test all possible flag combinations, only a few of them,
but I did make sure that "make allmodconfig; CFLAGS=-junk make" no
longer fails. ]
Guenter
> ---
>
> Makefile | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index cf007a31d575..0d3af0677d88 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -298,7 +298,9 @@ HOST_LFS_CFLAGS := $(shell getconf LFS_CFLAGS)
> HOST_LFS_LDFLAGS := $(shell getconf LFS_LDFLAGS)
> HOST_LFS_LIBS := $(shell getconf LFS_LIBS)
>
> +HOSTAS = as
> HOSTCC = gcc
> +HOSTLD = ld
> HOSTCXX = g++
> HOSTCFLAGS := -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 \
> -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu89 $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS)
> @@ -1616,11 +1618,35 @@ image_name:
> # Clear a bunch of variables before executing the submake
> tools/: FORCE
> $(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools
> - $(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(tools_silent) $(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(abspath $(objtree)) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/
> + $(Q)ASFLAGS="$(HOSTASFLAGS)"\
> + LDFLAGS="$(HOSTLDFLAGS)" \
> + CFLAGS="$(HOSTCFLAGS)" \
> + CXXFLAGS="$(HOSTCXXFLAGS)" \
> + $(MAKE) \
> + AS="$(HOSTAS)" \
> + CC="$(HOSTCC)" \
> + CXX="$(HOSTCXX)" \
> + LD="$(HOSTLD)" \
> + MAKEFLAGS="$(tools_silent) $(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" \
> + O=$(abspath $(objtree)) \
> + subdir=tools \
> + -C $(src)/tools/
>
> tools/%: FORCE
> $(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools
> - $(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(tools_silent) $(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(abspath $(objtree)) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/ $*
> + $(Q)ASFLAGS="$(HOSTASFLAGS)"\
> + LDFLAGS="$(HOSTLDFLAGS)" \
> + CFLAGS="$(HOSTCFLAGS)" \
> + CXXFLAGS="$(HOSTCXXFLAGS)" \
> + $(MAKE) \
> + AS="$(HOSTAS)" \
> + CC="$(HOSTCC)" \
> + CXX="$(HOSTCXX)" \
> + LD="$(HOSTLD)" \
> + MAKEFLAGS="$(tools_silent) $(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" \
> + O=$(abspath $(objtree)) \
> + subdir=tools \
> + -C $(src)/tools/ $*
>
> # Single targets
> # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> 2.14.2.920.gcf0c67979c-goog
>
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