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SubjectRe: [PATCH bpf v2] tools: fix unavoidable GCC call in Clang builds
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On 3/8/22 1:14 PM, Adrian Ratiu wrote:
> In ChromeOS and Gentoo we catch any unwanted mixed Clang/LLVM
> and GCC/binutils usage via toolchain wrappers which fail builds.
> This has revealed that GCC is called unconditionally in Clang
> configured builds to populate GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR.
>
> Allow the user to override CLANG_CROSS_FLAGS to avoid the GCC
> call - in our case we set the var directly in the ebuild recipe.
>
> In theory Clang could be able to autodetect these settings so
> this logic could be removed entirely, but in practice as the
> commit cebdb7374577 ("tools: Help cross-building with clang")
> mentions, this does not always work, so giving distributions
> more control to specify their flags & sysroot is beneficial.
>
> Suggested-by: Manoj Gupta <manojgupta@chromium.com>
> Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> * Replaced variable override GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR -> CLANG_CROSS_FLAGS

As I understand it from [0] and given we're late in the cycle, this is
targeted for bpf-next not bpf, right?

Thanks,
Daniel

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87czjk4osi.fsf@ryzen9.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me/

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