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authorMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2015-07-01 17:19:30 +0200
committerMoyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2018-11-29 16:57:57 +0100
commit6c769e5c4904ef4671a131748dc2454b8abd4e6e (patch)
tree6fa4b71ba9b65dd059ac5170c30a322f4dffa507 /Documentation
parent83a59365e88f4608489510c518dc2c9e5a08a853 (diff)
kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags
Since commit a1c48bb1 (Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command line options), the arch Makefile is included earlier by the main Makefile, preventing the arc architecture to set its -O3 compiler option. Since there might be more use cases for an arch Makefile to fine-tune the options, add support for ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS and ARCH_CFLAGS variables that are appended to the respective kbuild variables. The user still has the final say via the KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS variables. Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+ Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index d567a7cc5..746c58155 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -976,6 +976,14 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) set by the top level Makefile to "D" (deterministic
mode) if this option is supported by $(AR).
+ ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS, ARCH_CFLAGS Overrides the kbuild defaults
+
+ These variables are appended to the KBUILD_CPPFLAGS,
+ KBUILD_AFLAGS, and KBUILD_CFLAGS, respectively, after the
+ top-level Makefile has set any other flags. This provides a
+ means for an architecture to override the defaults.
+
+
--- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archheaders:
The archheaders: rule is used to generate header files that