[PATCH v3] Makefile: Fix GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR prefix for Clang cross compilation

From: Fangrui Song
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 13:31:40 EST


When CROSS_COMPILE is set (e.g. aarch64-linux-gnu-), if
$(CROSS_COMPILE)elfedit is found at /usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-elfedit,
GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR will be set to /usr/bin/. --prefix= will be set to
/usr/bin/ and Clang as of 11 will search for both
$(prefix)aarch64-linux-gnu-$needle and $(prefix)$needle.

GCC searchs for $(prefix)aarch64-linux-gnu/$version/$needle,
$(prefix)aarch64-linux-gnu/$needle and $(prefix)$needle. In practice,
$(prefix)aarch64-linux-gnu/$needle rarely contains executables.

To better model how GCC's -B/--prefix takes in effect in practice, newer
Clang (since
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/3452a0d8c17f7166f479706b293caf6ac76ffd90)
only searches for $(prefix)$needle. Currently it will find /usr/bin/as
instead of /usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-as.

Set --prefix= to $(GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR)$(CROSS_COMPILE)
(/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-) so that newer Clang can find the
appropriate cross compiling GNU as (when -no-integrated-as is in
effect).

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1099
---
Changes in v2:
* Updated description to add tags and the llvm-project commit link.
* Fixed a typo.

Changes in v3:
* Add Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0b5f8538bde5..3ac83e375b61 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ ifneq ($(shell $(CC) --version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | grep clang),)
ifneq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
CLANG_FLAGS += --target=$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%))
GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR := $(dir $(shell which $(CROSS_COMPILE)elfedit))
-CLANG_FLAGS += --prefix=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR)
+CLANG_FLAGS += --prefix=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR)$(CROSS_COMPILE)
GCC_TOOLCHAIN := $(realpath $(GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR)/..)
endif
ifneq ($(GCC_TOOLCHAIN),)
--
2.28.0.rc0.105.gf9edc3c819-goog