On 02/12/2018 07:24 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 6:39 AM, Masahiro Yamada > <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> (And in thinking about this, does Kconfig know the true $CC in use? >>> i.e. the configured cross compiler, etc?) >> >> I was thinking of removing CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE. >> >> A user can dynamically change CROSS_COMPILE from >> "make menuconfig". > > Most builds I've seen implement cross compilers as an environment > variable during all "make" invocations. I agree. I think you would break a bunch of build bots if you remove that. >> If we continue to support this, $CC changes >> according to CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE. >> Then, compiler flags must be re-evaluated >> every time a user changes a compiler in use. >> It will introduce much more complexity. > > Right now, this is just handled in the Makefile: all the right > variables exist, etc. > > -Kees > -- ~Randy -- 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
