[PATCH] powerpc: remove meaningless KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Fri Jul 12 2019 - 23:23:10 EST


The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition in arch/powerpc/Makefile has never worked
in a useful way because it is always overridden by the following code
in the top Makefile:

# use the deterministic mode of AR if available
KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)

The code in the top Makefile was added in 2011, by commit 40df759e2b9e
("kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19").

The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition for ppc has always been dead code from the
beginning.

Nobody has reported a problem since 43c9127d94d6 ("powerpc: Add option
to use thin archives"), so this code was unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/powerpc/Makefile | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index c345b79414a9..46ed198a3aa3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ ifeq ($(HAS_BIARCH),y)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m$(BITS)
KBUILD_AFLAGS += -m$(BITS) -Wl,-a$(BITS)
KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -m elf$(BITS)$(LDEMULATION)
-KBUILD_ARFLAGS += --target=elf$(BITS)-$(GNUTARGET)
endif

cflags-$(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR) += -mstack-protector-guard=tls
--
2.17.1