[PATCH v2] rust: Respect HOSTCC when linking for host

From: Matthew Maurer
Date: Mon Sep 18 2023 - 19:44:35 EST


Currently, rustc defaults to invoking `cc`, even if `HOSTCC` is defined,
resulting in build failures in hermetic environments where `cc` does not
exist. This includes both hostprogs and proc-macros.

Since we are setting the linker to `HOSTCC`, we set the linker flavor to
`gcc` explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Updated the patch to reflect Nick's comment that KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS
should be respected as well.

I did not switch it to use HOSTLD for two reasons:
* That variable is not globally defined - it is only available in two
subdirectories of tools/
* C host scripts are linked by HOSTCC as well, even when linking a
collection of object files. It *prints* HOSTLD, but invokes HOSTCC.
See scripts/Makefile.host cmd_host-cmulti for an example.

rust/Makefile | 4 ++++
scripts/Makefile.host | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rust/Makefile b/rust/Makefile
index 87958e864be0..b60b7eb8c5a0 100644
--- a/rust/Makefile
+++ b/rust/Makefile
@@ -380,9 +380,13 @@ $(obj)/exports_bindings_generated.h: $(obj)/bindings.o FORCE
$(obj)/exports_kernel_generated.h: $(obj)/kernel.o FORCE
$(call if_changed,exports)

+KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS_SQ = '$(subst ','\'',$(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS))'
+
quiet_cmd_rustc_procmacro = $(RUSTC_OR_CLIPPY_QUIET) P $@
cmd_rustc_procmacro = \
$(RUSTC_OR_CLIPPY) $(rust_common_flags) \
+ -Clinker-flavor=gcc -Clinker=$(HOSTCC) \
+ -Clink-args=$(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS_SQ) \
--emit=dep-info=$(depfile) --emit=link=$@ --extern proc_macro \
--crate-type proc-macro \
--crate-name $(patsubst lib%.so,%,$(notdir $@)) $<
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.host b/scripts/Makefile.host
index 8f7f842b54f9..dc0410cae5ca 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.host
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.host
@@ -87,10 +87,14 @@ hostcxx_flags = -Wp,-MMD,$(depfile) \
$(KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS) $(HOST_EXTRACXXFLAGS) \
$(HOSTCXXFLAGS_$(target-stem).o)

+KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS_SQ = '$(subst ','\'',$(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS))'
+
# `--out-dir` is required to avoid temporaries being created by `rustc` in the
# current working directory, which may be not accessible in the out-of-tree
# modules case.
hostrust_flags = --out-dir $(dir $@) --emit=dep-info=$(depfile) \
+ -Clinker-flavor=gcc -Clinker=$(HOSTCC) \
+ -Clink-args=$(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS_SQ) \
$(KBUILD_HOSTRUSTFLAGS) $(HOST_EXTRARUSTFLAGS) \
$(HOSTRUSTFLAGS_$(target-stem))

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