We get constant feedback that the command line invocation of make is too long. CROSS_COMPILE is helpful when a toolchain has a prefix of the target triple, or is an absolute path outside of $PATH, but it's mostly redundant for a given ARCH. Instead, let's infer it from SRCARCH, and move some flag handling into a new file included from the top level Makefile. Changes v2 -> v3: * Remove requirement that LLVM=1 be set. Instead, if building with just CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 instead of LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1, you should use LD=ld.lld explicitly, or LD=aarch64-linux-gnu-ld. (As per Masahiro) Example: $ ARCH=arm64 make CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 LD=ld.lld OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy \ STRIP=llvm-strip -j72 defconfig all (It's still preferable to use LLVM=1 IMO, but this is maximally flexible.) * Change oneliner from LLVM=1 to CC=clang. * Update Docs slightly. Changes v1 -> v2: * patch 1/2 untouched. * Fix typos in commit message as per Geert and Masahiro. * Use SRCARCH instead of ARCH, simplifying x86 handling, as per Masahiro. Add his sugguested by tag. * change commit oneline from 'drop' to 'infer.' * Add detail about explicit host --target and relationship of ARCH to SRCARCH, as per Masahiro. Nick Desaulniers (2): Makefile: move initial clang flag handling into scripts/Makefile.clang Makefile: infer CROSS_COMPILE from SRCARCH for CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 6 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 1 + Makefile | 15 +------------ scripts/Makefile.clang | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.clang base-commit: 27932b6a2088eac7a5afa5471963b926cfbb4de7 -- 2.32.0.432.gabb21c7263-goog