Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Kconfig: add new special property shell= to test compiler options in Kconfig

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On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 01:19:05AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> This was prompted by the email from Linus today's morning.
> 
> I implmented this in a rush today, so there are still many TODOs,
> but I put it here to start discussion.
> 
> I think it is working, but as you notice, it is tedious to repeat something
> like follows:
> 
> config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR
>         bool
>         option shell="$CC -Werror -fstack-protector -c -x c /dev/null"
> 
> One possiblity is to put this ugly code into script like follows,
> 
> config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
>           bool
>           option shell="$srctree/scripts/cc-option.sh $CC -fstack-protector"
> 
> ... but this is longer.

But it's easier to remember and cut/paste from :)

> I was thinking of something like follows:
> 
> config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
>           bool
>           option shell="$(CC_OPTION -fstack-protector)"

Sure, that would be even nicer, if possible.  Is it?

Anyway, very nice work.  I like moving the cache stuff to the .config
file, that makes a lot of sense and will be even nicer to see in the
/proc/config.gz output for when we are curious as to what the build
options really were.

thanks,

greg k-h
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