linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: cross-compile linux-headers package when possible

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Message-ID: <202407291757.BE6D847803@keescook>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:03:58 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: cross-compile linux-headers package when
 possible

On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 04:42:04PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> There are known limitations:
> 
>  - GCC plugins
> 
>    It would possible to rebuild GCC plugins for the target architecture
>    by passing HOSTCXX=${CROSS_COMPILE}g++ with necessary packages
>    installed, but gcc on the installed system emits
>    "cc1: error: incompatible gcc/plugin versions". I did not find a
>    solution for this because 'gcc' on a foreign architecture is a
>    different compiler after all.

Do you mean having a plugins as part of a distro package? Does anyone do
this?

-- 
Kees Cook