[PATCH v6 0/3] infer --target from SRCARCH for CC=clang

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Mon Aug 02 2021 - 14:39:20 EST


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 --target from SRCARCH, and move some flag handling into a
new file included from the top level Makefile.

Changes v5 -> v6:
* Use indirection as per Linus.
* Change hexagon triple to use -musl rather than -gnu. glibc doesn't
have support for hexagon, and hexagon-linux-musl is the triple we use
in CI.
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration2/blob/d659897d1700894d67feb64fe28e298da399a287/generator.yml#L53
* Pick up Fangrui's RB.
* Reorder use of Env vars in documentation to use command line
parameters instead, for consistency.

Changes v4 -> v5:
* Include previously missing first patch!

Changes v3 -> v4:
* Remove the requirement that LLVM_IAS=1 be set, as per Masahiro.
* Remove the Documentation/ change from patch 2, as per Masahiro and
Nathan.
* Add Documentation/ change as patch 3, from Masahiro.
* Reword commit message of patch 2, as per Nathan.
* Change patch 2 oneline to refer to --target and CC=clang (not
CROSS_COMPILE).
* Carry Arnd's and Nathan's AB/RB/TB tags, confirmed ok on IRC+discord.

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 (3):
Makefile: move initial clang flag handling into scripts/Makefile.clang
Makefile: infer --target from ARCH for CC=clang
Documentation/llvm: update CROSS_COMPILE inferencing

Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
Makefile | 15 +--------------
scripts/Makefile.clang | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.clang


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