Re: [PATCH] scripts/Makefile.clang: set --target for host based on make -v

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 01:39:48PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> We're working on providing statically linked images of clang to host on
> kernel.org. We're building them in Alpine Linux based Docker containers,
> which are MUSL based systems.
> 
> In order to keep bootstrapping simpler, I'd like for them to have an
> implicit default --target of x86_64-alpine-linux-musl (set via LLVM's
> cmake variable LLVM_DEFAULT_TARGET_TRIPLE).
> 
> Similarly, if one were to use a different build of clang meant for a
> glibc or bionic based system on a MUSL based host, we'd prefer to use
> the correct MUSL based triple for target hosts.
> 
> Borrowed from the Zen of Python: Explicit is better than implicit. Let's
> be explicit about the target triple for HOSTCC when building with
> HOSTCC=clang or LLVM=1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

I have tested this with a few different distributions on both aarch64
and x86_64:

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

One small comment below.

> ---
>  Makefile               |  3 +--
>  scripts/Makefile.clang | 10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 1a6678d817bd..87712d9b043c 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -600,10 +600,9 @@ endif
>  # CC_VERSION_TEXT is referenced from Kconfig (so it needs export),
>  # and from include/config/auto.conf.cmd to detect the compiler upgrade.
>  CC_VERSION_TEXT = $(subst $(pound),,$(shell LC_ALL=C $(CC) --version 2>/dev/null | head -n 1))
> +HOSTCC_VERSION_TEXT = $(subst $(pound),,$(shell LC_ALL=C $(HOSTCC) --version 2>/dev/null | head -n 1))
>  
> -ifneq ($(findstring clang,$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)),)
>  include $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.clang
> -endif
>  
>  # Include this also for config targets because some architectures need
>  # cc-cross-prefix to determine CROSS_COMPILE.
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.clang b/scripts/Makefile.clang
> index 87285b76adb2..a4505cd62d7b 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.clang
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.clang
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +ifneq ($(findstring clang,$(CC_VERSION_TEXT)),)
>  # Individual arch/{arch}/Makefiles should use -EL/-EB to set intended
>  # endianness and -m32/-m64 to set word size based on Kconfigs instead of
>  # relying on the target triple.
> @@ -39,3 +40,12 @@ CLANG_FLAGS	+= -Werror=ignored-optimization-argument
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(CLANG_FLAGS)
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(CLANG_FLAGS)
>  export CLANG_FLAGS
> +endif
> +
> +# If HOSTCC is clang, set the host target triple explicitly; do not rely on
> +# implicit defaults.
> +ifneq ($(findstring clang,$(HOSTCC_VERSION_TEXT)),)
> +HOST_TRIPLE		:= --target=$(shell make --version | head -n2 | tail -n1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3)

Should we use $(MAKE) instead of make here? I guess the only case where
it would matter is if someone was calling make via an explicit path and
did not have it available in their PATH so maybe it is not worth
worrying about.

> +KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS	+= $(HOST_TRIPLE)
> +KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS	+= $(HOST_TRIPLE)
> +endif
> 
> base-commit: 79fe0f863f920c5fcf9dea61676742f813f0b7a6
> -- 
> 2.36.1.476.g0c4daa206d-goog
> 
>