Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: drop CROSS_COMPILE for LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Thu Jul 08 2021 - 04:46:08 EST


On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 5:08 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 1:12 AM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We get constant feedback that the command line invocation of make is too
> > long. CROSS_COMPILE is helpful when a toolchain has a prefix of the
> > target triple, or is an absolute path outside of $PATH, but it's mostly
> > redundant for a given ARCH.
> >
> > If CROSS_COMPILE is not set, simply set --target= for CLANG_FLAGS,
> > KBUILD_CFLAGS, and KBUILD_AFLAGS based on $ARCH.
> >
> > Previously, we'd cross compile via:
> > $ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linxu-gnu make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
>
> Which didn't really work, I assume? (s/linxu/linux/)

Also
s/gnu/gnu-/



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Masahiro Yamada