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

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Jul 08 2021 - 04:08:51 EST


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/)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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