Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] kbuild: Add hostcc-option macro

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hostcc-option is equivalent to cc-option, but uses the host compiler
> and HOSTCFLAGS. Change HOSTCFLAGS to a simple expanded variable to
> allow for HOSTCFLAGS += $(call hostcc-option, ...).
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Actually, we already have a hostcc-option macro. What I meant with my suggestion
was that we could redefine the existing one using cc-option-raw.

I checked again now and found that while this was added in 2016 by
Emese Revfy, we apparently don't have any users of the helper in the
kernel.

      Arnd