Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools build feature: Use CC and CXX from parent

[Jiri Olsa]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 09:08:14PM -0700, Thomas Hebb wrote:
> commit c8c188679ccf ("tools build: Use the same CC for feature detection
> and actual build") changed these assignments from unconditional (:=) to
> conditional (?=) so that they wouldn't clobber values from the
> environment. However, conditional assignment does not work properly for
> variables that Make implicitly sets, among which are CC and CXX. To
> quote tools/scripts/Makefile.include, which handles this properly:
> 
>   # Makefiles suck: This macro sets a default value of $(2) for the
>   # variable named by $(1), unless the variable has been set by
>   # environment or command line. This is necessary for CC and AR
>   # because make sets default values, so the simpler ?= approach
>   # won't work as expected.
> 
> In other words, the conditional assignments will not run even if the
> variables are not overridden in the environment; Make will set CC to
> "cc" and CXX to "g++" when it starts[1], meaning the variables are not
> empty by the time the conditional assignments are evaluated. This breaks
> cross-compilation when CROSS_COMPILE is set but CC isn't, since "cc"
> gets used for feature detection instead of the cross compiler (and
> likewise for CXX).
> 
> To fix the issue, just pass down the values of CC and CXX computed by
> the parent Makefile, which gets included by the Makefile that actually
> builds whatever we're detecting features for and so is guaranteed to
> have good values. This is a better solution anyway, since it means we
> aren't trying to replicate the logic of the parent build system and so
> don't risk it getting out of sync.
> 
> Leave PKG_CONFIG alone, since 1) there's no common logic to compute it
> in Makefile.include, and 2) it's not an implicit variable, so
> conditional assignment works properly.

looks good, I wonder we might need it also for CLANG in the future

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka

> 
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-Variables.html
> 
> Fixes: c8c188679ccf ("tools build: Use the same CC for feature detection and actual build")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  tools/build/Makefile.feature | 2 +-
>  tools/build/feature/Makefile | 2 --
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile.feature b/tools/build/Makefile.feature
> index cb152370fdef..774f0b0ca28a 100644
> --- a/tools/build/Makefile.feature
> +++ b/tools/build/Makefile.feature
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ endif
>  
>  feature_check = $(eval $(feature_check_code))
>  define feature_check_code
> -  feature-$(1) := $(shell $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT_FEATURES) CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_CFLAGS-$(1))" CXXFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CXXFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_CXXFLAGS-$(1))" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-$(1))" -C $(feature_dir) $(OUTPUT_FEATURES)test-$1.bin >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0)
> +  feature-$(1) := $(shell $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT_FEATURES) CC=$(CC) CXX=$(CXX) CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_CFLAGS-$(1))" CXXFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CXXFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_CXXFLAGS-$(1))" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-$(1))" -C $(feature_dir) $(OUTPUT_FEATURES)test-$1.bin >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0)
>  endef
>  
>  feature_set = $(eval $(feature_set_code))
> diff --git a/tools/build/feature/Makefile b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
> index b1f0321180f5..93b590d81209 100644
> --- a/tools/build/feature/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
> @@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ FILES=                                          \
>  
>  FILES := $(addprefix $(OUTPUT),$(FILES))
>  
> -CC ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
> -CXX ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE)g++
>  PKG_CONFIG ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE)pkg-config
>  LLVM_CONFIG ?= llvm-config
>  CLANG ?= clang
> -- 
> 2.27.0
>