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Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] infer CROSS_COMPILE from SRCARCH for CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>, Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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We get constant feedback that the command line invocation of make is too
long. CROSS_COMPILE is helpful when a toolchain has a prefix of the
target triple, or is an absolute path outside of $PATH, but it's mostly
redundant for a given ARCH.

Instead, let's infer it from SRCARCH, and move some flag handling into a
new file included from the top level Makefile.

Changes v2 -> v3:
* Remove requirement that LLVM=1 be set. Instead, if building with just
  CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 instead of LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1, you should use
  LD=ld.lld explicitly, or LD=aarch64-linux-gnu-ld. (As per Masahiro)
  Example:

  $ ARCH=arm64 make CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 LD=ld.lld OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy \
    STRIP=llvm-strip -j72 defconfig all

  (It's still preferable to use LLVM=1 IMO, but this is maximally
  flexible.)
* Change oneliner from LLVM=1 to CC=clang.
* Update Docs slightly.

Changes v1 -> v2:
* patch 1/2 untouched.
* Fix typos in commit message as per Geert and Masahiro.
* Use SRCARCH instead of ARCH, simplifying x86 handling, as per
  Masahiro. Add his sugguested by tag.
* change commit oneline from 'drop' to 'infer.'
* Add detail about explicit host --target and relationship of ARCH to
  SRCARCH, as per Masahiro.

Nick Desaulniers (2):
  Makefile: move initial clang flag handling into scripts/Makefile.clang
  Makefile: infer CROSS_COMPILE from SRCARCH for CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1

 Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst |  6 +++++
 MAINTAINERS                   |  1 +
 Makefile                      | 15 +------------
 scripts/Makefile.clang        | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.clang


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