From a0d1c951ef08ed24f35129267e3595d86f57f5d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:36:23 +0900 Subject: kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM As Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst implies, building the kernel with a full set of LLVM tools gets very verbose and unwieldy. Provide a single switch LLVM=1 to use Clang and LLVM tools instead of GCC and Binutils. You can pass it from the command line or as an environment variable. Please note LLVM=1 does not turn on the integrated assembler. You need to pass LLVM_IAS=1 to use it. When the upstream kernel is ready for the integrated assembler, I think we can make it default. We discussed what we need, and we agreed to go with a simple boolean flag that switches both target and host tools: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/28/494 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/3/43 Some items discussed, but not adopted: - LLVM_DIR When multiple versions of LLVM are installed, I just thought supporting LLVM_DIR=/path/to/my/llvm/bin/ might be useful. CC = $(LLVM_DIR)clang LD = $(LLVM_DIR)ld.lld ... However, we can handle this by modifying PATH. So, we decided to not do this. - LLVM_SUFFIX Some distributions (e.g. Debian) package specific versions of LLVM with naming conventions that use the version as a suffix. CC = clang$(LLVM_SUFFIX) LD = ld.lld(LLVM_SUFFIX) ... will allow a user to pass LLVM_SUFFIX=-11 to use clang-11 etc., but the suffixed versions in /usr/bin/ are symlinks to binaries in /usr/lib/llvm-#/bin/, so this can also be handled by PATH. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor # build Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers --- tools/objtool/Makefile | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/objtool') diff --git a/tools/objtool/Makefile b/tools/objtool/Makefile index ee08aeff30a1..f591c4d1b6fe 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/Makefile +++ b/tools/objtool/Makefile @@ -3,9 +3,15 @@ include ../scripts/Makefile.include include ../scripts/Makefile.arch # always use the host compiler +ifneq ($(LLVM),) +HOSTAR ?= llvm-ar +HOSTCC ?= clang +HOSTLD ?= ld.lld +else HOSTAR ?= ar HOSTCC ?= gcc HOSTLD ?= ld +endif AR = $(HOSTAR) CC = $(HOSTCC) LD = $(HOSTLD) -- cgit v1.2.3