linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: Only specify '--prefix=' when building with clang + GNU as

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Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 14:02:52 -0800
From:   Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: Only specify '--prefix=' when building
 with clang + GNU as

On 2021-03-02, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>When building with LLVM_IAS=1, there is no point to specifying
>'--prefix=' because that flag is only used to find the cross assembler,
>which is clang itself when building with LLVM_IAS=1. All of the other
>tools are invoked directly from PATH or a full path specified via the
>command line, which does not depend on the value of '--prefix='.
>
>Sharing commands to reproduce issues becomes a little bit easier without
>a '--prefix=' value because that '--prefix=' value is specific to a
>user's machine due to it being an absolute path.
>
>Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>

clang can spawn GNU as (if -f?no-integrated-as is specified) and GNU
objcopy (-f?no-integrated-as and -gsplit-dwarf and -g[123]).

With LLVM_IAS=1, these cases are ruled out.