Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Make $(LLVM) more flexible

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 7:47 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 11:08:29AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 9:14 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > +If your LLVM tools are not available in your PATH, you can supply their
> > > +location using the LLVM variable with a trailing slash: ::
> > > +
> > > +       make LLVM=/path/to/llvm/
> > > +
> > > +which will use ``/path/to/llvm/clang``, ``/path/to/llvm/ld.lld``, etc.
> >
> > I don't think we should do this; `PATH=/path/to/llvm/ make LLVM=1`
> > works and (my interpretation of what) Masahiro said "if anyone asks
> > for this, here's how we could do that."  I don't think I've seen an
> > explicit ask for that. I'd rather LLVM= have 2 behaviors than 3, but I
> > won't hold this patch up over that.  Either way:
>
> Right, there has not been an explicit ask for the prefix support yet,
> although I know I personally would use it,

Then let that be reason enough. :)
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers