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From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date:   Wed, 16 May 2018 23:32:25 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 29/31] gcc-plugins: test plugin support in Kconfig and
 clean up Makefile
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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        "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
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On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
> Run scripts/gcc-plugin.sh from Kconfig so that users can enable
> GCC_PLUGINS only when the compiler supports building plugins.
>
> Kconfig defines a new symbol, PLUGIN_HOSTCC.  This will contain
> the compiler (g++ or gcc) used for building plugins, or empty
> if the plugin can not be supported at all.
>
> This allows us to remove all ugly testing in Makefile.gcc-plugins.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-Kees

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Kees Cook
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