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

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Arnd,


2017-06-14 16:26 GMT+09:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:
> 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.


Oops, I missed it because
it is defined in scripts/Makefile.host instead of scripts/Kbuild.include


$(call cc-option, ...) is generally used in the top Makefile (or
arch/*/Makefile).


However, scripts/Makefile.host is not included from the top Makefile,
so $(call hostcc-option, ...) is available only under sub-directories.
I guess that is why we had no user of it.

I think the right thing to do
is to remove the former implementation from Makefile.host

Thanks!



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada