Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:11 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Unify the two scripts/ld-version.sh and scripts/lld-version.sh, and
> check the minimum linker version like scripts/cc-version.sh did.
>
> I tested this script for some corner cases reported in the past:
>
>  - GNU ld version 2.25-15.fc23
>    as reported by commit 8083013fc320 ("ld-version: Fix it on Fedora")
>
>  - GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303
>    as reported by commit 0d61ed17dd30 ("ld-version: Drop the 4th and
>    5th version components")
>
> This script show an error message if the linker is too old:
>
>   $ make LD=ld.lld-9
>     SYNC    include/config/auto.conf
>   ***
>   *** Linker is too old.
>   ***   Your LLD version:    9.0.1
>   ***   Minimum LLD version: 10.0.1
>   ***
>   scripts/Kconfig.include:50: Sorry, this linker is not supported.
>   make[2]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:71: syncconfig] Error 1
>   make[1]: *** [Makefile:600: syncconfig] Error 2
>   make: *** [Makefile:708: include/config/auto.conf] Error 2
>
> I also moved the check for gold to this script, so gold is still rejected:
>
>   $ make LD=gold
>     SYNC    include/config/auto.conf
>   gold linker is not supported as it is not capable of linking the kernel proper.
>   scripts/Kconfig.include:50: Sorry, this linker is not supported.
>   make[2]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:71: syncconfig] Error 1
>   make[1]: *** [Makefile:600: syncconfig] Error 2
>   make: *** [Makefile:708: include/config/auto.conf] Error 2
>
> Thanks to David Laight for suggesting shell script improvements.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>

Applied to linux-kbuild.


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada