Re: [PATCH v2 01/39] kbuild: Fix clang build

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 09:37:04AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> However, I think we could still address Peter's complaint of "there
> should be an easier way for me to use the tools that are already in my
> PATH" with his first iteration of this patch [1], which I feel is
> totally reasonable:
> 
> $ make LLVM=-14
> 
> It is still easy to use (in fact, it is shorter than 'CC=clang-14') and
> it does not change anything else about how we build with LLVM. We would
> just have to add something along the lines of
> 
> "If your LLVM tools have a suffix like Debian's (clang-14, ld.lld-14,
> etc.), use LLVM=<suffix>.
> 
> $ make LLVM=-14"
> 
> to Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst.
> 
> I might change the patch not to be so clever though:
> 
> ifneq ($(LLVM),)
> ifneq ($(LLVM),1)
> LLVM_SFX := $(LLVM)
> endif
> endif

I like this idea! I think it's much easier to control than PATH (though
I see the rationale there too).

-- 
Kees Cook