linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: remove obsolete gcc-ld script

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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdkY=ye4PKi8KwP-ux73pwZs+J_Oq3wR7ep8S81=aCWtqA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:19:49 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: remove obsolete gcc-ld script

+ Jiri in case this needs to be carried downstream.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:15 AM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Since commit 8564ed2b3888 ("Kbuild, lto: Add a gcc-ld script to let run gcc
> as ld") in 2014, there was not specific work on this the gcc-ld script
> other than treewide clean-ups.
>
> There are no users within the kernel tree, and probably no out-of-tree
> users either, and there is no dedicated maintainer in MAINTAINERS.
>
> Delete this obsolete gcc-ld script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>

No callers in-tree; happy to bring it back though should there later
be. Thanks for the patch.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

> ---
> If there are no objections, I would like to get this patch included
> through the kbuild tree.
>
> Masahiro-san, please pick this patch.
>
>  scripts/gcc-ld | 30 ------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 30 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100755 scripts/gcc-ld
>
> diff --git a/scripts/gcc-ld b/scripts/gcc-ld
> deleted file mode 100755
> index 997b818c3962..000000000000
> --- a/scripts/gcc-ld
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
> -#!/bin/sh
> -# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> -# run gcc with ld options
> -# used as a wrapper to execute link time optimizations
> -# yes virginia, this is not pretty
> -
> -ARGS="-nostdlib"
> -
> -while [ "$1" != "" ] ; do
> -       case "$1" in
> -       -save-temps|-m32|-m64) N="$1" ;;
> -       -r) N="$1" ;;
> -       -[Wg]*) N="$1" ;;
> -       -[olv]|-[Ofd]*|-nostdlib) N="$1" ;;
> -       --end-group|--start-group)
> -                N="-Wl,$1" ;;
> -       -[RTFGhIezcbyYu]*|\
> ---script|--defsym|-init|-Map|--oformat|-rpath|\
> --rpath-link|--sort-section|--section-start|-Tbss|-Tdata|-Ttext|\
> ---version-script|--dynamic-list|--version-exports-symbol|--wrap|-m)
> -               A="$1" ; shift ; N="-Wl,$A,$1" ;;
> -       -[m]*) N="$1" ;;
> -       -*) N="-Wl,$1" ;;
> -       *)  N="$1" ;;
> -       esac
> -       ARGS="$ARGS $N"
> -       shift
> -done
> -
> -exec $CC $ARGS
> --
> 2.17.1
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers