linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: drop CROSS_COMPILE for LLVM=1 LLVM

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXuzb6PuujuCzm_FYq9ZeZeJxVZiYTGxdGeOTkZ6+W=+w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Jul 2021 10:08:35 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: drop CROSS_COMPILE for LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

Hi Nick,

On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 1:12 AM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
> We get constant feedback that the command line invocation of make is too
> long. CROSS_COMPILE is helpful when a toolchain has a prefix of the
> target triple, or is an absolute path outside of $PATH, but it's mostly
> redundant for a given ARCH.
>
> If CROSS_COMPILE is not set, simply set --target= for CLANG_FLAGS,
> KBUILD_CFLAGS, and KBUILD_AFLAGS based on $ARCH.
>
> Previously, we'd cross compile via:
> $ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linxu-gnu make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

Which didn't really work, I assume? (s/linxu/linux/)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

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