Re: [PATCH] objtool: Allow AR to be overridden with HOSTAR

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Currently, this Makefile hardcodes GNU ar, meaning that if it is not
> available, there is no way to supply a different one and the build will
> fail.
> 
> $ make AR=llvm-ar CC=clang LD=ld.lld HOSTAR=llvm-ar HOSTCC=clang \
>        HOSTLD=ld.lld HOSTLDFLAGS=-fuse-ld=lld defconfig modules_prepare
> ...
>   AR       /out/tools/objtool/libsubcmd.a
> /bin/sh: 1: ar: not found
> ...
> 
> Follow the logic of HOST{CC,LD} and allow the user to specify a
> different ar tool via HOSTAR (which is used elsewhere in other
> tools/ Makefiles).
> 
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/481
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Nathan.  I'll send it along to the tip tree.

-- 
Josh