Hello, > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexey Brodkin [mailto:abrodkin at synopsys.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 11:48 PM > To: linux-snps-arc at lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>; Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>; Masahiro > Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>; Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> > Subject: [PATCH] ARC: Don't set CROSS_COMPILE in arch's Makefile > > There's not much sense in doing that because if user or > his build-system didn't set CROSS_COMPILE we still may > very well make incorrect guess. > > But as it turned out setting CROSS_COMPILE is not as harmless > as one may think: with recent changes that implemented automatic > discovery of __host__ gcc features unconditional setup of > CROSS_COMPILE leads to failures on execution of "make xxx_defconfig" > with absent cross-compiler, for more info see [1]. > > Set CROSS_COMPILE as well gets in the way if we want only to build > .dtb's (again with absent cross-compiler which is not really needed > for building .dtb's), see [2]. > > Note, we had to change LIBGCC assignment type from ":=" to "=" > so that is is resolved on its usage, otherwise if it is resolved > at declaration time with missing CROSS_COMPILE we're getting this > error message from host GCC: > ------------------------->8------------------------- > gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ?-mmedium-calls? > gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ?-mno-sdata?; did you mean ?-fno-stats?? > ------------------------->8------------------------- > > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-September/004308.html > [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-September/004320.html > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> > --- > arch/arc/Makefile | 10 +--------- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arc/Makefile b/arch/arc/Makefile > index 99cce77ab98f..5f6b67917dc2 100644 > --- a/arch/arc/Makefile > +++ b/arch/arc/Makefile > @@ -6,14 +6,6 @@ > # published by the Free Software Foundation. > # > > -ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),) > -ifndef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN > -CROSS_COMPILE := arc-linux- > -else > -CROSS_COMPILE := arceb-linux- > -endif > -endif > - > KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := nsim_700_defconfig > > cflags-y += -fno-common -pipe -fno-builtin -mmedium-calls -D__linux__ > @@ -79,7 +71,7 @@ cflags-$(disable_small_data) += -mno-sdata -fcall-used-gp > cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += -mbig-endian > ldflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += -EB > > -LIBGCC := $(shell $(CC) $(cflags-y) --print-libgcc-file-name) > +LIBGCC = $(shell $(CC) $(cflags-y) --print-libgcc-file-name) > > # Modules with short calls might break for calls into builtin-kernel > KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += -mlong-calls -mno-millicode > -- > 2.17.1 May we have this one back-ported to stable branches? Upstream commit in Linus' tree is: 40660f1fcee8 ("ARC: build: Don't set CROSS_COMPILE in arch's Makefile"). Regards, Alexey
