On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:38:48 +0900 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If the target compiler is GCC 4.8 or newer, plugins are compiled with > HOSTCXX. Otherwise, gcc-plugin.sh will select HOSTCC or HOSTCXX. > > To simpily things, let's decide GCC 4.8 is the requirement for GCC > pulgins. With this, plugins are always built with HOSTCXX. This is a > feature of advanced users, so this requirement whould not be not a big > issue. I disagree with such a decision. I think the gcc plugins should compile with older version because the kernel can be compiled with them too. The distros use these older versions as well and I can very well imagine that new plugins will extend these with backported features such as my sancov plugin. -- Emese -- 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
