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Message-ID: <0ed5448e-cd54-4a99-9389-e27deddfda90@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 17 Sep 2023 10:24:04 -0300
From:   Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>, Finn Behrens <me@...enk.dev>
Cc:     Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
        Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>,
        Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: Respect HOSTCC when linking for host

On 9/16/23 16:54, Matthew Maurer wrote:> Yes, thanks Bjorn - "gcc" is the linker flavor used for "Use the C
> compiler as a linker".
> 
> With regards to HOSTLD, I was trying to make the minimum possible
> change. Currently, it is using the command `cc` as a linker, so this
> would preserve existing behavior when HOSTCC is unset.
> 
> If we would prefer `HOSTLD` instead we can do that, but we would need
> to additionally inspect `LLVM` to set the linker flavor accordingly
> (e.g. set ld vs ld.lld).

LLVM can use all of bfd, gold, lld and mold plus each and one of them
support roughly the same set of flags, so we can kinda ignore the
differences between them.

> Do folks have strong opinions between these? My primary concern is to
> avoid calling programs by foo when their HOSTFOO variable is set.
> 
> See https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/codegen-options/index.html#linker-flavor
> for details on linker flavor settings.

If I were to talk about my experiences with CMake then I'd say that
build systems tend to kinda ignore your linker choice if you thought
that it was going to be used standalone. I think KBuild does indeed
honor it, so if we can go ahead with that then we could do so.
Although I don't know what else would bring upon the table.