On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 12:56:52PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:24 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Your nack is for a different reason: GCC plugins are second-class > > citizens. Fair enough... > > MNo, I didn't NAK it. Quite the reverser. > > I am ABSOLUTELY against rebuilding normal object files just because > gcc versions change. A compiler version change makes zero difference > for any normal object file. > > But the gcc plugins are different. They very much _are_ tied to a > particular gcc version. > > Now, they are tied to a particular gcc version because they are > horribly badly done, and bad technology, and I went off on a bit of a > rant about just how bad they are, but the point is that gcc plugins > depend on the exact gcc version in ways that normal object files do > _not_. Thanks, reading comprehension is hard. I realized after re-reading that I interpreted your "plugins should depend on the kernel version" statement too broadly. Masahiro, any idea how I can make the GCC version a build dependency? -- Josh
