On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:10:48PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > > > On 03/20/2012 04:58 PM, John Kacur wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Accept user supplied CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, overwriting the > >> Makefile supplied versions. This can cause the build to > >> fail if the user does not provide at least what the Makefile > >> defines, but so be it. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> CC: Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> CC: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> CC: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@xxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > > > > I was just wondering what you need LDFLAGS for? Chatting with Darren > > on IRC, it seems like you're using -Wl to pass options via gcc to the > > linker, and we don't have loadable libs either. Maybe you could resend > > the patch with just the CFLAGS change until we have a real world > > reason for LDFLAGS > > Denys, > > Am I missing a reason why we need LDFLAGS? With the current Makefile. we > could just add anything we want to CFLAGS in a pinch anyway... Darren, >From OE-Core config files: LINKER_HASH_STYLE ??= "gnu" TARGET_LINK_HASH_STYLE ?= "${@['-Wl,--hash-style=gnu',''][d.getVar('LINKER_HASH_STYLE', True) != 'gnu']}" export TARGET_LDFLAGS = "-Wl,-O1 ${TARGET_LINK_HASH_STYLE}" ASNEEDED = "-Wl,--as-needed" TARGET_LDFLAGS += "${ASNEEDED}" export LDFLAGS = "${TARGET_LDFLAGS}" So, those are still linker flags (altough passed through -Wl to gcc), hence they belong to LDFLAGS, not CFLAGS. Arguably, you only need to pass CFLAGS during compile stage and LDFLAGS during link stage. On the other hand, as a workaround, I was passing them to TARGET_CC_ARCH, which gets embedded into CC and won't distinguish between compile/link stages... So rt-tests just gets away not using LDFLAGS and re-using CFLAGS for the link stage. :) But the current Makefile as it is now won't honor CFLAGS being set from outside, unless you pass them explicitly on the command line to make, or call make with -e flag. -- Denys -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html