linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: Fix detection of clang when cross-compiling

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Message-ID: <55E97F9F.30300@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 4 Sep 2015 13:25:19 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Behan Webster <behanw@...verseincode.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: Fix detection of clang when cross-compiling

On 2015-08-27 10:37, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 2015-08-27 03:49, Behan Webster wrote:
>> Is there any reason you renamed COMPILER? Because it breaks all the 
>> other patches we have queued up which use it for cross compiling.
>>
>> And aren't we supposed to use all caps for variable names?
> 
> It more like a function now and is consistent with the other cc-*
> definitions in scripts/Kbuild.include.
> 
> 
>> This doesn't only break powerpc, it breaks arm, aarch64 and clang work 
>> that's being done on MIPS malta.
> 
> So do a s/COMPILER/cc-name/ ? You can merge my patch into your tree to
> avoid a dependency on the kbuild tree.

Since I haven't seen any further uses of the $(CLANG) variable in
linux-next, I applied the patch to kbuild.git now.

Michal
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