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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:08:58 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: [musl-cross-make] [PATCH] Fix LINUX_ARCH for
 aarch64-* TARGET

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:23:41AM -0700, Michael Forney wrote:
> 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.

I think it looks right. Going to run a few smoke test builds before I
push it.

Rich

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