[PATCH 3/3] kbuild: Allow passing additional HOSTCFLAGS and HOSTLDFLAGS
From: Laura Abbott
Date: Wed Mar 28 2018 - 20:48:26 EST
Similar to AFLAGS_KBUILD, there may be uses (e.g. hardening) for passing in
additional flags to host programs. Allow these to be passed in from the
environment.
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 9 +++++++++
Makefile | 3 +++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index ac2363ea05c5..3751a4bc8596 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ KAFLAGS
--------------------------------------------------
Additional options to the assembler (for built-in and modules).
+AFLAGS_HOSTCFLAGS
+--------------------------------------------------
+Additional options passed to the compiler when building host programs.
+
+AFLAGS_HOSTLDFLAGS
+--------------------------------------------------
+Additional options passed to the linker (through the compiler) when buidling
+host programs.
+
AFLAGS_MODULE
--------------------------------------------------
Additional module specific options to use for $(AS).
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7ba478ab8c82..2cab3f8d489c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -367,6 +367,9 @@ HOSTCXXFLAGS := -O2 $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS)
HOSTLDFLAGS := $(HOST_LFS_LDFLAGS)
HOST_LOADLIBES := $(HOST_LFS_LIBS)
+HOSTCFLAGS += $(AFLAGS_HOSTCFLAGS)
+HOSTLDFLAGS += $(AFLAGS_HOSTLDFLAGS)
+
# Make variables (CC, etc...)
AS = $(CROSS_COMPILE)as
LD = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
--
2.16.2