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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:50:32 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
pageexec@...email.hu, spender@...ecurity.net,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] Shared library support
Hi Emese,
2016-03-15 5:14 GMT+09:00 Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:19:33 +0900
> Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
>> As an alternative, you can add needed build rules
>> into tools/gcc/Makefile, not scripts/Makefile.host
>>
>> I guess these rule won't be used in other places.
>
> I think it is better if the rules stay under scripts/ because I expect that there will also be clang and llvm plugins
> in the future (e.g., clang plugins can access the frontend that gcc plugins can't do). In this case these rules would
> either have to be duplicated or moved back under scripts/ (which makes it difficult to backport).
>
>> > +# hostcc-option
>> > +# Usage: cflags-y += $(call hostcc-option,-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)
>> > +
>> > +hostcc-option = $(call try-run,\
>> > + $(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS) $(HOST_EXTRACFLAGS) $(1) -c -x c /dev/null -o "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
>> > +
>> > __hostprogs := $(sort $(hostprogs-y) $(hostprogs-m))
>> > +__hostlibs := $(sort $(hostlibs-y) $(hostlibs-m))
>> > +__hostcxxlibs := $(sort $(hostcxxlibs-y) $(hostcxxlibs-m))
>> >
>> > # C code
>> > # Executables compiled from a single .c file
>> > @@ -42,6 +60,19 @@ host-cxxmulti := $(foreach m,$(__hostprogs),$(if $($(m)-cxxobjs),$(m)))
>> > # C++ Object (.o) files compiled from .cc files
>> > host-cxxobjs := $(sort $(foreach m,$(host-cxxmulti),$($(m)-cxxobjs)))
>> >
>> > +# Shared libaries (only .c supported)
>> > +# Shared libraries (.so) - all .so files referenced in "xxx-objs"
>> > +host-cshlib := $(sort $(filter %.so, $(host-cobjs)))
>>
>> useless.
>
> Which part do you think is useless and why?
The line
host-cshlib := $(sort $(filter %.so, $(host-cobjs)))
is useless because there is no host program that consists of .so files.
Your intention is to generate shared objects as final targets,
not host tools that call shared objects.
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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