linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] rust: Respect HOSTCC when linking for host

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Message-ID: <CAH5fLgjUa+TRO_xOQp-uRo5wC8+iVgSh+MA573EjfFtiHbA4mg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Oct 2023 09:42:28 +0200
From:   Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To:     Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>
Cc:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
        Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
        Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] rust: Respect HOSTCC when linking for host

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 9:48 PM Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, rustc defaults to invoking `cc`, even if `HOSTCC` is defined,
> resulting in build failures in hermetic environments where `cc` does not
> exist. This includes both hostprogs and proc-macros.
>
> Since we are setting the linker to `HOSTCC`, we set the linker flavor to
> `gcc` explicitly. The linker-flavor selects both which linker to search
> for if the linker is unset, and which kind of linker flags to pass.
> Without this flag, `rustc` would attempt to determine which flags to
> pass based on the name of the binary passed as `HOSTCC`. `gcc` is the
> name of the linker-flavor used by `rustc` for all C compilers, including
> both `gcc` and `clang`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>

Tested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>