This guarding is wrong. As Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst notes, LLVM=1 switches the default of tools, but you can still override CC, LD, etc. individually. BTW, LLVM is not 1/0 flag. If LLVM is not passed in, it is empty. Non-zero return code is all treated as failure anyway. So, $(success,test $(LLVM) -eq 1) and $(success,test "$(LLVM)" = 1) works equivalently in the sense that both are expanded to 'n' if LLVM is not given. The difference is that the former internally fails due to syntax error. $ test ${LLVM} -eq 1 bash: test: -eq: unary operator expected $ echo $? 2 $ test "${LLVM}" -eq 1 bash: test: : integer expression expected $ echo $? 2 $ test "${LLVM}" = 1 echo $? 1 $ test -n "${LLVM}" $ echo $? 1 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 2bb30673d8e6..2af10ebe5ed0 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -632,7 +632,6 @@ config HAS_LTO_CLANG def_bool y # Clang >= 11: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/510 depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 110000 && LD_IS_LLD - depends on $(success,test $(LLVM) -eq 1) depends on $(success,test $(LLVM_IAS) -eq 1) depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm) -- 2.27.0