On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 21:43, Andre McCurdy <armccu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:36 AM Alexander Kanavin
> <alex.kana...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This was added 10 years ago, is almost certainly non-upstreamable
> > and it isn't clear what the issues it aims to fix are:
> > the AB revealed no problems when the patch is removed.
>
> The comment in the patch was: This fixes the issue where LDFLAGS
> escaped with -Wl are ignored during compilation. Seems fairly clear!
>
> Checking that the AB run didn't fail is probably not enough to justify
> removing this patch. You should also confirm that LDFLAGS escaped with
> -Wl (e.g. -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now when security flags are enabled, etc)
> are still passed to the linker.
>

Thanks, I will double check.

Alex


>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <a...@linutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  ...ing-instead-of-LD-and-use-CFLAGS-and.patch | 114 ------------------
> >  meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.34.1.bb   |   1 -
> >  2 files changed, 115 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644
> meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-Use-CC-when-linking-instead-of-LD-and-use-CFLAGS-and.patch
> >
> > diff --git
> a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-Use-CC-when-linking-instead-of-LD-and-use-CFLAGS-and.patch
> b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-Use-CC-when-linking-instead-of-LD-and-use-CFLAGS-and.patch
> > deleted file mode 100644
> > index 2bf2b91c7e..0000000000
> > ---
> a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-Use-CC-when-linking-instead-of-LD-and-use-CFLAGS-and.patch
> > +++ /dev/null
> > @@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
> > -From a9333eb6a7b8dbda735947cd5bc981ff9352a2c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > -From: Nathan Phillip Brink <ohnobi...@ohnopublishing.net>
> > -Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:27:08 -0500
> > -Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Use $(CC) when linking instead of $(LD) and use
> $(CFLAGS)
> > - and $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) when linking.
> > -
> > -This fixes the issue where LDFLAGS escaped with -Wl are ignored during
> > -compilation. It also simplifies using CFLAGS or EXTRA_CFLAGS (such as
> > --m32 on x86_64 or -flto) which apply to both compilation and linking
> > -situations.
> > -
> > -Signed-off-by: Nathan Phillip Brink <ohnobi...@ohnopublishing.net>
> > ----
> > -Upstream-Status: Pending
> > -
> > - Makefile               |  7 ++++---
> > - scripts/Makefile.build |  8 ++++----
> > - scripts/Makefile.lib   | 13 +++----------
> > - 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > -
> > -Index: busybox-1.23.2/Makefile
> > -===================================================================
> > ---- busybox-1.23.2.orig/Makefile
> > -+++ busybox-1.23.2/Makefile
> > -@@ -309,7 +309,8 @@ CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D
> > - MODFLAGS      = -DMODULE
> > - CFLAGS_MODULE   = $(MODFLAGS)
> > - AFLAGS_MODULE   = $(MODFLAGS)
> > --LDFLAGS_MODULE  = -r
> > -+LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE = -r -nostdlib
> > -+LDFLAGS_MODULE  = $(LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE)
> > - CFLAGS_KERNEL =
> > - AFLAGS_KERNEL =
> > -
> > -@@ -331,7 +332,7 @@ KERNELVERSION = $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL)
> > - export        VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE KERNELVERSION \
> > -       ARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC \
> > -       CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP MAKE AWK GENKSYMS PERL
> UTS_MACHINE \
> > --      HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
> > -+      HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK
> CHECKFLAGS
> > -
> > - export CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS LDFLAGS
> > - export CFLAGS CFLAGS_KERNEL CFLAGS_MODULE
> > -@@ -610,7 +611,7 @@ quiet_cmd_busybox__ ?= LINK    $@
> > -       cmd_busybox__ ?= $(srctree)/scripts/trylink \
> > -       "$@" \
> > -       "$(CC)" \
> > --      "$(CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS_busybox)" \
> > -+      "$(CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS_busybox) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)" \
> > -       "$(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)" \
> > -       "$(core-y)" \
> > -       "$(libs-y)" \
> > -Index: busybox-1.23.2/scripts/Makefile.build
> > -===================================================================
> > ---- busybox-1.23.2.orig/scripts/Makefile.build
> > -+++ busybox-1.23.2/scripts/Makefile.build
> > -@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ cmd_modversions =
>                 \
> > -               | $(GENKSYMS) -a $(ARCH)                                \
> > -               > $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);                             \
> > -                                                                       \
> > --              $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -r -o $@ $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F)              \
> > -+               $(CC) $(ld_flags_partial) $(LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE) -o $@
> $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F)        \
> > -                       -T $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);                    \
> > -               rm -f $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);        \
> > -       else                                                            \
> > -@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ quiet_cmd_link_o_target = LD      $@
> > - # If the list of objects to link is empty, just create an empty
> built-in.o
> > - # -nostdlib is added to make "make LD=gcc ..." work (some people use
> that)
> > - cmd_link_o_target = $(if $(strip $(obj-y)),\
> > --              $(LD) -nostdlib $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(filter $(obj-y),
> $^),\
> > -+              $(CC) $(ld_flags_partial) $(LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE) -o $@
> $(filter $(obj-y), $^),\
> > -               rm -f $@; $(AR) rcs $@)
> > -
> > - $(builtin-target): $(obj-y) FORCE
> > -@@ -292,10 +292,10 @@ $($(subst $(obj)/,,$(@:.o=-objs)))    \
> > - $($(subst $(obj)/,,$(@:.o=-y)))), $^)
> > -
> > - quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = LD      $@
> > --cmd_link_multi-y = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(link_multi_deps)
> > -+cmd_link_multi-y = $(CC) $(ld_flags_partial) $(LDFLAGS_RELOCATABLE) -o
> $@ $(link_multi_deps)
> > -
> > - quiet_cmd_link_multi-m = LD [M]  $@
> > --cmd_link_multi-m = $(LD) $(ld_flags) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) -o $@
> $(link_multi_deps)
> > -+cmd_link_multi-m = $(CC) $(ld_flags) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) -o $@
> $(link_multi_deps)
> > -
> > - # We would rather have a list of rules like
> > - #     foo.o: $(foo-objs)
> > -Index: busybox-1.23.2/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > -===================================================================
> > ---- busybox-1.23.2.orig/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > -+++ busybox-1.23.2/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > -@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ cpp_flags      = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NO
> > - # yet ld_flags is fed to ld.
> > - #ld_flags       = $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
> > - # Remove the -Wl, prefix from linker options normally passed through
> gcc
> > --ld_flags       = $(filter-out -Wl$(comma)%,$(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS))
> > -+ld_flags       = $(filter-out -Wl$(comma)%,$(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
> $(CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS))
> > -+ld_flags_partial = $($(filter-out -shared%, $(filter-out
> -pie%,$(ld_flags))))
> > -
> > -
> > - # Finds the multi-part object the current object will be linked into
> > -@@ -151,10 +152,8 @@ $(obj)/%:: $(src)/%_shipped
> > - # Linking
> > - #
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -
> > --# TODO: LDFLAGS usually is supposed to contain gcc's flags, not ld's.
> > --# but here we feed them to ld!
> > --quiet_cmd_ld = LD      $@
> > --cmd_ld = $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_$(@F)) \
> > -+quiet_cmd_ld = CC    $@
> > -+cmd_ld = $(CC) $(ld_flags) $(LDFLAGS_$(@F)) \
> > -              $(filter-out FORCE,$^) -o $@
> > -
> > - # Objcopy
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.34.1.bb
> b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.34.1.bb
> > index 6aed0f0476..3651c06126 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.34.1.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.34.1.bb
> > @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ SRC_URI = "
> https://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-${PV}.tar.bz2;name=tarball \
> >             file://login-utilities.cfg \
> >             file://recognize_connmand.patch \
> >             file://busybox-cross-menuconfig.patch \
> > -
>  file://0001-Use-CC-when-linking-instead-of-LD-and-use-CFLAGS-and.patch \
> >             file://mount-via-label.cfg \
> >             file://sha1sum.cfg \
> >             file://sha256sum.cfg \
> > --
> > 2.20.1
> >
> >
> > 
> >
>
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