linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm V3] kbuild: fix reading CROSS

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Message-ID: <20100821130749.GA22280@localhost>
Date:	Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:07:49 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Tiago Maluta <tiago.maluta@...il.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: [PATCH -mm V3] kbuild: fix reading CROSS_COMPILE from .config

Fix compile error

        $ ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux-gnu- make
        ...
        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-m64"
        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mno-red-zone"
        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mcmodel=kernel"
        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-maccumulate-outgoing-args"

The error was introduced by patch
kbuild-fix-config_cross_compile-issue-in-config.patch:

  -CROSS_COMPILE  ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%)
  +CROSS_COMPILE  := $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)

That patch does two things:
1) It grep for CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE because we may not have incldued .config
2) It no longer pick up CROSS_COMPILE from the environment.

Traditionally we have picked up ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE from the environment,
hence the use of "?=".
"?=" says - perform this assignment unless lhs is already defined.
And lhs may be already defined is we have the symbol defined in the
environment.

I think the original submitter changed from ?= to := without realizing this.
So the patch should be adjusted to use ?= again before it is applied.

Cc: Tiago Maluta <tiago.maluta@...il.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
---

Andrew: it's an -mm tree only bug for now
Sam: I copied so many of your nice comments to the changelog, so that I added
your Signed-off-by :)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d646d69..af8864e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
 export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH)
 ARCH		?= $(SUBARCH)
 CROSS_COMPILE	?=
-CROSS_COMPILE	:= $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)
+CROSS_COMPILE	?= $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)
 
 # Architecture as present in compile.h
 UTS_MACHINE 	:= $(ARCH)
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