Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Add environment variables for userprogs flags

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 3:26 PM Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 1/28/2022 2:49 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> >   On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 2:45 PM Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> On 2022-01-28, Elliot Berman wrote:
> >>> Allow additional arguments be passed to userprogs compilation.
> >>> Reproducible clang builds need to provide a sysroot and gcc path to
> >>> ensure same toolchain is used across hosts. KCFLAGS is not currently
> >>> used for any user programs compilation, so add new USERCFLAGS and
> >>> USERLDFLAGS which serves similar purpose as HOSTCFLAGS/HOSTLDFLAGS.
> >>>
> >>> Specifically, I'm trying to force CC_CAN_LINK to consistently fail in
> >>> an environment where a user sysroot is not specifically available.
> >>> Currently, Clang might automatically detect GCC installation on hosts
> >>> which have it installed to a default location in /. With addition of
> >>> these environment variables, you can specify flags such as:
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> >>> $ make USERCFLAGS=--sysroot=/dev/null USERLDFLAGS=-Wl,--sysroot=/dev/null
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> >>> to force sysroot detection to fail.
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> >> -Wl,--sysroot=/dev/null => --sysroot
> >>
> >> As I mentioned in
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220128031549.w5a4bilxbkppagfu@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >> -Wl,--sysroot=/dev/null does not suppress search paths like -L/lib .
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> > In that case, Elliot, can you please test whether USERLDFLAGS is
> > necessary to be specified AT ALL? Maybe we can drop that addition from
> > this patch if so?
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> USERLDFLAGS as --sysroot=/dev/null isn't necessary and not needed for
> the Android kernel usecase. I've included here since we have HOSTLDFLAGS
> and LDFLAGS for host programs and kernel respectively.
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Ok, for symmetry it's ok to keep HOSTLDFLAGS, consider dropping it
from the "example" in the commit message. The note about -Wl, prefixes
exists in the docs now which is good enough for me.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers