[PATCH -mm V3] kbuild: fix reading CROSS_COMPILE from .config

[PATCH -mm V3] kbuild: fix reading CROSS_COMPILE from .config

[Wu Fengguang]

Fix compile error

        $ ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux-gnu- make
        ...
        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-m64"
        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mno-red-zone"
        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mcmodel=kernel"
        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-maccumulate-outgoing-args"

The error was introduced by patch
kbuild-fix-config_cross_compile-issue-in-config.patch:

  -CROSS_COMPILE  ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%)
  +CROSS_COMPILE  := $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)

That patch does two things:
1) It grep for CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE because we may not have incldued .config
2) It no longer pick up CROSS_COMPILE from the environment.

Traditionally we have picked up ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE from the environment,
hence the use of "?=".
"?=" says - perform this assignment unless lhs is already defined.
And lhs may be already defined is we have the symbol defined in the
environment.

I think the original submitter changed from ?= to := without realizing this.
So the patch should be adjusted to use ?= again before it is applied.

Cc: Tiago Maluta <tiago.maluta@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---

Andrew: it's an -mm tree only bug for now
Sam: I copied so many of your nice comments to the changelog, so that I added
your Signed-off-by :)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d646d69..af8864e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
 export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH)
 ARCH		?= $(SUBARCH)
 CROSS_COMPILE	?=
-CROSS_COMPILE	:= $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)
+CROSS_COMPILE	?= $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)
 
 # Architecture as present in compile.h
 UTS_MACHINE 	:= $(ARCH)

Re: [PATCH -mm V3] kbuild: fix reading CROSS_COMPILE from .config

[Américo Wang]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:07:49PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>Fix compile error
>
>        $ ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux-gnu- make
>        ...
>        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-m64"
>        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mno-red-zone"
>        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mcmodel=kernel"
>        cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-maccumulate-outgoing-args"
>
>The error was introduced by patch
>kbuild-fix-config_cross_compile-issue-in-config.patch:
>
>  -CROSS_COMPILE  ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%)
>  +CROSS_COMPILE  := $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)
>
>That patch does two things:
>1) It grep for CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE because we may not have incldued .config
>2) It no longer pick up CROSS_COMPILE from the environment.
>
>Traditionally we have picked up ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE from the environment,
>hence the use of "?=".
>"?=" says - perform this assignment unless lhs is already defined.
>And lhs may be already defined is we have the symbol defined in the
>environment.
>
>I think the original submitter changed from ?= to := without realizing this.
>So the patch should be adjusted to use ?= again before it is applied.
>
>Cc: Tiago Maluta <tiago.maluta@gmail.com>
>Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
>Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
>Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>


I think the line right above the chunk can be removed too, anyway,

Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Thanks.

>---
>
>Andrew: it's an -mm tree only bug for now
>Sam: I copied so many of your nice comments to the changelog, so that I added
>your Signed-off-by :)
>
>diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>index d646d69..af8864e 100644
>--- a/Makefile
>+++ b/Makefile
>@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
> export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH)
> ARCH		?= $(SUBARCH)
> CROSS_COMPILE	?=
>-CROSS_COMPILE	:= $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)
>+CROSS_COMPILE	?= $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)
> 
> # Architecture as present in compile.h
> UTS_MACHINE 	:= $(ARCH)
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Re: [PATCH -mm V3] kbuild: fix reading CROSS_COMPILE from .config

[Wu Fengguang]

> I think the line right above the chunk can be removed too, anyway,

Good catch!

> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Thanks,
Fengguang