[PATCH] objtool: Allow AR to be overridden with HOSTAR

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Tue May 14 2019 - 18:42:52 EST


Currently, this Makefile hardcodes GNU ar, meaning that if it is not
available, there is no way to supply a different one and the build will
fail.

$ make AR=llvm-ar CC=clang LD=ld.lld HOSTAR=llvm-ar HOSTCC=clang \
HOSTLD=ld.lld HOSTLDFLAGS=-fuse-ld=lld defconfig modules_prepare
...
AR /out/tools/objtool/libsubcmd.a
/bin/sh: 1: ar: not found
...

Follow the logic of HOST{CC,LD} and allow the user to specify a
different ar tool via HOSTAR (which is used elsewhere in other
tools/ Makefiles).

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/481
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/objtool/Makefile | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/Makefile b/tools/objtool/Makefile
index 53f8be0f4a1f..88158239622b 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/objtool/Makefile
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ ARCH := x86
endif

# always use the host compiler
+HOSTAR ?= ar
HOSTCC ?= gcc
HOSTLD ?= ld
+AR = $(HOSTAR)
CC = $(HOSTCC)
LD = $(HOSTLD)
-AR = ar

ifeq ($(srctree),)
srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(CURDIR)))
--
2.22.0.rc0