Crosscompiling on a Fedora 9 machine running gcc 4.3.0 as its host compiler and gcc 3.4.6 for the mips-linux target results in the following build error: $ make malta_defconfig $ make cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fno-stack-protector" scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/mips/Kconfig cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fno-stack-protector" The arch Makefile is included too late so the host compiler is feature tested, not the crosscompiler as intended and thus the Makefile applies adds -fno-stack-protector to crosscompiler's flags which fails for gcc 3.4.6. The bug was introduced by e06b8b98da071f7dd78fb7822991694288047df0 in 2.6.25; 35bb5b1e0e84cfa1a8906f7e6a77f391ff315791 did add more flags testing before the arch Makefile inclusion. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index bfde079..312fcaa 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -509,6 +509,8 @@ else KBUILD_CFLAGS += -O2 endif +include $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile + ifneq (CONFIG_FRAME_WARN,0) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wframe-larger-than=${CONFIG_FRAME_WARN}) endif @@ -517,8 +519,6 @@ endif # Arch Makefiles may override this setting KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector) -include $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile - ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls else