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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:23:41 -0700
From: Michael Forney <mforney@...rney.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl-cross-make] [PATCH] Fix LINUX_ARCH for aarch64-* TARGET

On 2017-08-20, Michael Forney <mforney@...rney.org> wrote:
> 'aarch64' is converted to 'arm64' in the TARGET_ARCH_MANGLED assignment,
> but then LINUX_ARCH is set the first to the first linux arch which
> appears in TARGET_ARCH_MANGLED. Since 'arm' is a substring of 'arm64'
> and appears ahead of 'arm64' in sorted order, it gets chosen
> incorrectly.
>
> To fix this, use 'lastword' instead of 'firstword'. This should work for
> all current linux architectures, but is still not perfect in the
> theoretical case where the substring match is not rooted at the
> beginning of TARGET_ARCH_MANGLED. So, also replace 'findstring' with an
> 'if' and 'filter'.
> ---
>  litecross/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/litecross/Makefile b/litecross/Makefile
> index 371affb..46584fd 100644
> --- a/litecross/Makefile
> +++ b/litecross/Makefile
> @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ ifneq ($(LINUX_SRCDIR),)
>  TARGET_ARCH = $(firstword $(subst -, ,$(TARGET)))
>  TARGET_ARCH_MANGLED = $(patsubst i%86,x86,$(patsubst
> aarch64%,arm64%,$(TARGET_ARCH)))
>  LINUX_ARCH_LIST = $(sort $(notdir $(wildcard $(LINUX_SRCDIR)/arch/*)))
> -LINUX_ARCH = $(firstword $(foreach a,$(LINUX_ARCH_LIST),$(findstring
> $(a),$(TARGET_ARCH_MANGLED))))
> +LINUX_ARCH = $(lastword $(foreach a,$(LINUX_ARCH_LIST),$(if $(filter
> $(a)%,$(TARGET_ARCH_MANGLED)),$(a))))
>  ifneq ($(LINUX_ARCH),)
>  all: kernel-headers
>  install: install-kernel-headers
> --
> 2.14.0

Since some musl-cross-make patches are getting applied, I'm bumping
this so it doesn't get forgotten. I can also open a github PR if you
prefer.

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