Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: Remove '--gcc-toolchain' flag

[Fangrui Song]

On 2021-03-09, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> This flag was originally added to allow clang to find the GNU cross
> tools in commit 785f11aa595b ("kbuild: Add better clang cross build
> support"). This flag was not enough to find the tools at times so
> '--prefix' was added to the list in commit ef8c4ed9db80 ("kbuild: allow
> to use GCC toolchain not in Clang search path") and improved upon in
> commit ca9b31f6bb9c ("Makefile: Fix GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR prefix for Clang
> cross compilation"). Now that '--prefix' specifies a full path and
> prefix, '--gcc-toolchain' serves no purpose because the kernel builds
> with '-nostdinc' and '-nostdlib'.
>
> This has been verified with self compiled LLVM 10.0.1 and LLVM 13.0.0 as
> well as a distribution version of LLVM 11.1.0 without binutils in the
> LLVM toolchain locations.
>
> Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97902
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

The wording looks good.

Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>