Re: kbuild: check the minimum compiler version in Kconfig

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 11/16/22 14:48, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 1:48 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Masahiro, Nick,
>>
>> The compiler version check performed with
>> aec6c60a01d3a3170242d6a99372a388e1136dc6 ("kbuild: check the minimum
>> compiler version in Kconfig") can be defeated and prevent running the
>> *config targets if specifying LLVM=1 on the command line, in that way:
>>
>> BR_BINARIES_DIR=/local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/images
>> LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 PKG_CONFIG_PATH="" /usr/bin/make -j49 -C
>> /local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/build/linux-custom
>> HOSTCC="/usr/bin/gcc"
>> HOSTCC="/local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/host/bin/ccache
>> /usr/bin/gcc -O2
>> -I/local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/host/include
>> -DNDEBUG -L/local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/host/lib
>> -Wl,-rpath,/local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/host/lib"
>> ARCH=arm64
>> INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/target
>> CROSS_COMPILE="/local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/host/bin/aarch64-linux-"
>> WERROR=0
>> DEPMOD=/local/users/fainelli/buildroot-llvm/output/arm64/host/sbin/depmod
>> INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 HOSTCC="/usr/bin/gcc" menuconfig
>>     UPD     scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg
>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
>>     HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
>> ***
>> *** Compiler is too old.
>> ***   Your Clang version:    10.0.0
>> ***   Minimum Clang version: 10.0.1
>> ***
>> scripts/Kconfig.include:44: Sorry, this compiler is not supported.
>>
>> Here, the compiler check is actually checking the host compiler clang
>> version installed on my Ubuntu 20.04 system, as opposed to the cross
>> compiler clang version that is being used.
> 
> LLVM=1 will use `clang` as found by your $PATH.  Where did you express
> to make what the "cross compiler clang version" is? (And why do you
> set HOSTCC three times)

We are setting CROSS_COMPILE to express the cross compiler clang prefix 
to use.

Setting HOSTCC three times is done by buildroot, it does it through make 
flags, and then variables passed to make etc. clearly we could change 
that, but that's out of scope is not it?
-- 
Florian