* Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 21:20:58 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:43:14PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > I was wondering if this would be more appropriate in scripts/objtool
> > > since it is used during the building of the kernel. Or does it have a
> > > wider use?
> >
> > Yeah, it was actually in the scripts/ dir in earlier revisions of the
> > patch set, for that very reason. However, Ingo pointed out that it
> > could be useful beyond the kernel, so we graduated it to a "tool".
> >
> > >
> > > We have HOSTCC with its associated HOSTCFLAGS etc ... I am not sure if
> > > that is more appropriate (but it does take care of people using clang).
> >
> > The "tools" are almost completely separate from the rest of the kernel.
> > They have their own scaled-down version of kbuild, which doesn't have
> > HOSTCC.
> >
> > But yeah, we might eventually need to copy some of the host compilation
> > infrastructure from scripts/Makefile.host over to the tools/ side.
>
> That all sounds sane, thanks.
>
> I did not add this to linux-next today, but may tomorrow if people
> think it is sensible to do so (for testing on a powerpcle host). If I
> do, I will just back out to the previous patch if it all goes south (so
> it won't impact on the rest of the tip tree's testing).
I'll add Josh's fixes to -tip ASAP as well, so hopefully soon you can drop all
linux-next specific patches related to this and it will all work Just Fine (tm).
Sorry about the breakage!
Thanks,
Ingo
