Re: [PATCH 1/1] tools: power/acpi, revert to LD = gcc

[Martin Kelly]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:43 AM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit 7ed1c1901fe5 (tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering) removed
> setting of LD to $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc. This broke build of acpica
> (acpidump) in power/acpi:
>  ld: unrecognized option '-D_LINUX'
>
> The tools pass CFLAGS to the linker (incl. -D_LINUX), so revert this
> particular change and let LD be $(CC) again. Note that the old behaviour
> was a bit different, it used $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc which was eliminated by
> the commit 7ed1c1901fe5. We use $(CC) for that reason.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Kelly <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config b/tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config
> index 2cccbba64418..f304be71c278 100644
> --- a/tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config
> +++ b/tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ INSTALL_SCRIPT = ${INSTALL_PROGRAM}
>  # to compile vs uClibc, that can be done here as well.
>  CROSS = #/usr/i386-linux-uclibc/usr/bin/i386-uclibc-
>  CROSS_COMPILE ?= $(CROSS)
> +LD = $(CC)
>  HOSTCC = gcc
>
>  # check if compiler option is supported
> --
> 2.16.3
>

Reviewed-by: Martin Kelly <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for noticing this and sorry I missed it!