From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f67.google.com ([209.85.214.67]:36188 "EHLO mail-it0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751980AbdK3XjP (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:39:15 -0500 Received: by mail-it0-f67.google.com with SMTP id d16so527943itj.1 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: Sami Tolvanen Subject: [PATCH v2 3/7] kbuild: add ld-name macro Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:39:01 -0800 Message-Id: <20171130233905.130602-4-samitolvanen@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20171130233905.130602-1-samitolvanen@google.com> References: <20171129234442.655-1-samitolvanen@google.com> <20171130233905.130602-1-samitolvanen@google.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Alex Matveev , Andi Kleen , Ard Biesheuvel , Greg Hackmann , Kees Cook , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Rutland , Masahiro Yamada , Maxim Kuvyrkov , Michal Marek , Nick Desaulniers , Yury Norov , Matthias Kaehlcke , Nicholas Piggin Cc: Sami Tolvanen GNU gold may require different flags than GNU ld. Add a macro for detecting the linker. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers --- scripts/Kbuild.include | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include index eb2cf2780f6e..899863e4cd05 100644 --- a/scripts/Kbuild.include +++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include @@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ ld-option = $(call try-run-cached,\ # Important: no spaces around options ar-option = $(call try-run-cached, $(AR) rc$(1) "$$TMP",$(1),$(2)) +# ld-name +# Expands to either bfd or gold +ld-name = $(shell $(LD) -v 2>&1 | grep -q "GNU gold" && echo gold || echo bfd) + # ld-version # Note this is mainly for HJ Lu's 3 number binutil versions ld-version = $(call shell-cached,$(LD) --version | $(srctree)/scripts/ld-version.sh) -- 2.15.0.531.g2ccb3012c9-goog