Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix endless syncconfig in case arch Makefile sets CROSS_COMPILE

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Yamada-san,

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 2:21 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit 21c54b774744 ("kconfig: show compiler version text in the top
> comment") was intended to detect the compiler upgrade, but Geert
> reported a breakage on the m68k build.
>
> The compiler upgrade is detected by the change of the environment
> variable, CC_VERSION_TEXT, which contains the first line of the output
> from $(CC) --version.  Currently, this works well when CROSS_COMPILE
> is given via the environment variable or the Make command line.
>
> However, some architectures such as m68k can specify CROSS_COMPILE
> from arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile as well.  In this case, "make ARCH=m68k"
> ends up with endless syncconfig loop.
>
>   $ make ARCH=m68k defconfig
>   *** Default configuration is based on 'multi_defconfig'
>   #
>   # configuration written to .config
>   #
>   $ make ARCH=m68k
>   scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig
>   scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig
>   scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig
>   scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig

[...]

> Fixes: 21c54b774744 ("kconfig: show compiler version text in the top comment")
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for fixing this quickly!

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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