Re: [PATCH v2] perf docs: Mark the Android document as obsolete

[Leo Yan]

On 7/16/24 14:30, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 3:06 AM Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > Thanks for correcting. Now I even can build successfully with the Clang
> > from Android NDK with an additional flag 'NO_DEMANGLE=1'. Though we still
> > need to disable several modules for passing the building, but we are on the
> > right way.
> >
> > Would you like to continue a formal fixing or you want me to follow up?
>
> +clang-built-linux
>
> If you could follow up it would be great!

Okay, I will look into it.

> I'm not sure how we detect
> in the build that we're using clang, I suspect there is an approach in
> a different kernel Makefile/Build that already tackles this but my
> quick searching didn't yield anything - perhaps the change would be
> better suited to the location the CROSS_COMPILE prefix is added to
> gcc.

Should we follow up the steps in the Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst?
The document uses the flag 'LLVM=1' for selecting LLVM/Clang.

Thanks,
Leo

> The only thing the change to Makefile.config is doing is
> injecting the --target option. I'm not sure anything more is not
> working for me on my laptop with this approach compared to cross
> compiling with gcc, but as you say going in the right direction is
> worth it anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian