linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 27/35] ARC: build: Dont set CROSS

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Message-Id: <20181018175426.552181032@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:54:56 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@...opsys.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 27/35] ARC: build: Dont set CROSS_COMPILE in archs Makefile

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@...opsys.com>

commit 40660f1fcee8d524a60b5101538e42b1f39f106d upstream.

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:

| gcc: error: unrecognized command line option -mmedium-calls
| gcc: error: unrecognized command line option -mno-sdata

[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@...opsys.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arc/Makefile |   10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arc/Makefile
@@ -8,14 +8,6 @@
 
 UTS_MACHINE := arc
 
-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__
@@ -75,7 +67,7 @@ ldflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)	+= -EB
 # --build-id w/o "-marclinux". Default arc-elf32-ld is OK
 ldflags-$(upto_gcc44)			+= -marclinux
 
-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