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Linus Torvalds
bfa274e243 Linux 2.6.25-rc3 2008-02-24 13:25:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
230b548c15 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
  kbuild: explain why DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is UNDEFINED
  kbuild: fix building vmlinux.o
  kbuild: allow -fstack-protector to take effect
  kconfig: fix select in combination with default
2008-02-18 15:41:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
101142c37b Linux 2.6.25-rc2 2008-02-15 12:57:20 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
cf87dcd140 kbuild: fix building vmlinux.o
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i've got a build log from a weird build error below:
>
>   LD      init/built-in.o
> distcc[12023] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
>

Building vmlinux.o were moved up in the dependency chain so we started
to build it before the kallsym stuff. This was done to let modpost
report section mismatch bugs even when the final link failed.

Originally I had expected the dependency of $(kallsyms.o) to
cover this but it turns out that we need to be even more explicit.
Fix this by adding a conditional dependency on firat target
used in the kallsyms serie of builds.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2008-02-14 23:33:25 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
e06b8b98da kbuild: allow -fstack-protector to take effect
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
===
I just read the excellent LWN writeup of the vmsplice
security thing, and that got me wondering why this attack
wasn't stopped by the CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR option...
because it plain should have been...

Some analysis later.. it turns out that the following line
in the top level Makefile, added by you in October 2007,
entirely disables CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR ;(
With this line removed the exploit will be nicely stopped.

CFLAGS          += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)

Now I realize that certain distros have patched gcc to
compensate for their lack of distro wide CFLAGS, and it's
great to work around that... but would there be a way to NOT
disable this for CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR please?
It would have made this exploit not possible for those kernels
that enable this feature (and that includes distros like Fedora)
===

Move the assignment to KBUILD_CFLAGS up before including
the arch specific Makefile so arch makefiles may override
the setting.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-02-14 23:33:21 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
19af35546d Linux 2.6.25-rc1
.. and I really need to call it something else.  Maybe it is time to
bring back the weasel series, since weasels always make me feel good
about a kernel.
2008-02-10 14:18:14 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
e1b8513d21 Typoes: "whith" -> "with"
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 15:14:02 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
310f8243a6 kbuild: link vmlinux.o before kallsyms passes
link vmlinux.o so we may report section mismatch bugs before
we start with the real link - that may error out.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
91341d4b2c kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch analysis
Setting the option DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH will
report additional section mismatch'es but this
should in the end makes it possible to get rid of
all of them.

See help text in lib/Kconfig.debug for details.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
243f40cecb kbuild: document 'make prepare' in 'make help'
The output of 'make help' covers a lot of options, but doesn't include
a listing for 'make prepare'.  Here's a one-liner to fix that...

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:38 +01:00
Uwe Kleine-König
2c81210a26 kbuild: ignore cache modifiers for generating the tags files
With this patch I'm able to find the definition of _xmit_lock defined in
include/linux/netdevice.h as follows:

	struct net_device {
		...
		spinlock_t _xmit_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
	}

Otherwise this counts as definition of ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:38 +01:00
Robert P. J. Day
899c38420c Kbuild: Clarify the rpm-related make packaging targets
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:36 +01:00
Tejun Heo
551559e13a kbuild: implement modules.order
When multiple built-in modules (especially drivers) provide the same
capability, they're prioritized by link order specified by the order
listed in Makefile.  This implicit ordering is lost for loadable
modules.

When driver modules are loaded by udev, what comes first in
modules.alias file is selected.  However, the order in this file is
indeterministic (depends on filesystem listing order of installed
modules).  This causes confusion.

The solution is two-parted.  This patch updates kbuild such that it
generates and installs modules.order which contains the name of
modules ordered according to Makefile.  The second part is update to
depmod such that it generates output files according to this file.

Note that both obj-y and obj-m subdirs can contain modules and
ordering information between those two are lost from beginning.
Currently obj-y subdirs are put before obj-m subdirs.

Sam Ravnborg cleaned up Makefile modifications and suggested using awk
to remove duplicate lines from modules.order instead of using separate
C program.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:35 +01:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
8000743455 kbuild: Add missing srctree prefix for includecheck and versioncheck
Add missing $(srctree)/ prefix for scripts used by the includecheck and
versioncheck make targets

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:35 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
aa025e7d5c kbuild: document versioncheck in make help
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:35 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
ec2d987f98 kbuild: add 'includecheck' help text
Add 'includecheck' to the Static analyzers help list.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:35 +01:00
Paul Mundt
12760cb4df sh: Fix up uname -m matching for native sh64.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-01-28 13:18:56 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
49914084e7 Linux 2.6.24 2008-01-24 14:58:37 -08:00
Linus Nilsson
d384e35a25 Makefile: Change typoed 'behavour' to 'behaviour'
Change two occurances of "behavour" to "behaviour".

Signed-off-by: Linus Nilsson <lajnold@acc.umu.se>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-21 19:55:04 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cbd9c88369 Linux 2.6.24-rc8 2008-01-15 20:22:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3ce5445046 Linux 2.6.24-rc7 2008-01-06 13:45:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ea67db4cdb Linux 2.6.24-rc6 2007-12-20 17:25:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
82d29bf6dc Linux 2.6.24-rc5 2007-12-10 19:48:43 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
18c32dac75 kbuild: fix building with O=.. options
The check introduced in commit:
4f1127e204 "kbuild: fix
infinite make recursion"

caused certain external modules not to build and
also caused 'make targz-pkg' to fail.
This is a minimal fix so we revert to previous
behaviour - but we do not overwrite the Makefile
in the top-level directory.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Tested-by: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Cc: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
2007-12-09 08:55:13 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
1cacc9ab8b kbuild: fix building with redirected output.
Jan Altenberg <jan.altenberg@linutronix.de> reported that
building with redirected input like this failed:
make O=dir oldconfig bzImage < /dev/null

The problem were caused by a make silentoldconfig being
run before oldconfig and with a non-recent .config the build
failed because silentoldconfig requires non-redirected stdin.

Silentoldconfig was run as a side-effect of having the
top-level Makefile re-made by make.
Introducing an empty rule for the top-level Makefile
(and Kbuild.include) fixed the issue.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-12-09 08:43:42 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
09b56adc98 Linux 2.6.24-rc4 2007-12-03 20:26:10 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
80ef88d6d2 x86: simplify "make ARCH=x86" and fix kconfig all.config
Simplify "make ARCH=x86" and fix kconfig so we again
can set 64BIT in all.config.

For a fix the diffstat is nice:
 6 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

The patch reverts these commits:
0f855aa64b
-> kconfig: add helper to set config symbol from environment variable

2a113281f5
-> kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*config targets

Roman Zippel pointed out that kconfig supported string
compares so the additional complexity introduced by the
above two patches were not needed.

With this patch we have following behaviour:

# make {allno,allyes,allmod,rand}config [ARCH=...]
option \ host arch      | 32bit         | 64bit
=====================================================
./.                     | 32bit         | 64bit
ARCH=x86                | 32bit         | 32bit
ARCH=i386               | 32bit         | 32bit
ARCH=x86_64             | 64bit         | 64bit

The general rule are that ARCH= and native architecture
takes precedence over the configuration.
So make ARCH=i386 [whatever] will always build a 32-bit
kernel no matter what the configuration says.
The configuration will be updated to 32-bit if it was
configured to 64-bit and the other way around.

This behaviour is consistent with previous behaviour so
no suprises here.

make ARCH=x86 will per default result in a 32-bit kernel
but as the only ARCH= value x86 allow the user to select
between 32-bit and 64-bit using menuconfig. 

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@arcor.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-11-17 17:21:54 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
d0974b11e0 Remove x86 merge artifact from top Makefile
The x86 merge modified the tags target to handle the two separate
source directories. Remove it now that i386/x86_64 are gone completely.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17 16:27:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
d9f8bcbf67 Linux 2.6.24-rc3 2007-11-16 21:16:36 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
daa93fab82 x86: enable "make ARCH=x86"
After unification of the Kconfig files and
introducing K64BIT support in kconfig
it required only trivial changes to enable
"make ARCH=x86".

With this patch you can build for x86_64 in several ways:
1) make ARCH=x86_64
2) make ARCH=x86 K64BIT=y
3) make ARCH=x86 menuconfig
   => select 64-bit

Likewise for i386 with the addition that
i386 is default is you say ARCH=x86.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-11-12 21:02:20 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
d746d647f3 x86: do not use $(ARCH) when not needed
For x86 ARCH may say i386 or x86_64 and soon x86.
Rely on CONFIG_X64_32 to select between 32/64 or just
hardcode the value as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-11-12 21:02:20 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
dbeeb816e8 Linux 2.6.24-rc2 2007-11-06 13:57:46 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
69ee0b3522 kbuild: do not pick up CFLAGS from the environment
Too many people have CFLAGS set to support building userspace.
And now Kbuild picks up CFLAGS this caused troubles.

Although people should realise that setting CFLAGS has
a 'global' effect the impact on the kernel build is a suprise.
So change kbuild to pick up value from KCFLAGS that is
much less used.

When kbuild pick up a value it will warn like this:
Makefile:544: "WARNING: Appending $KCFLAGS (-O3) from environment to kernel $CFLAGS"

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2007-11-04 19:00:46 +01:00
Paul Mundt
236b195744 sh: Correct SUBARCH matching.
When configuring the kernel natively the uname matching is off,
so fix up the uname mangling to get the proper SUBARCH. Needs
an explicit range so that SH-5 doesn't break.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-11-02 12:22:47 +09:00
Sam Ravnborg
74b469f2e6 x86: move i386 and x86_64 Makefiles to arch/x86
Moving the ARCH specific Makefiles for i386 and x86_64
required a litle bit tweaking in the top-lvel Makefile.

SRCARCH is now set in the top-level Makefile
because we need this info to include the correct
arch Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-25 22:27:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c9927c2bf4 Linux 2.6.24-rc1
The patch is big.  Really big.  You just won't believe how vastly hugely
mindbogglingly big it is.  I mean you may think it's a long way down the
road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to how big the patch from
2.6.23 is.

But it's all good.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-23 20:50:57 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
d8d2e78a06 kbuild: allow depmod in cross builds again
depmod from module-init-tools 3.3-pre2 are reported
to work fine in cross build.
depmod from module-init-tools 3.1-pre5 are known to SEGV

Do not workaround older module-init-tools bugs here.
The right fix is for users to upgrade module-init-tools.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
2007-10-22 20:04:37 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
ab19f8794a kbuild: fix modules_install after a 'make vmlinux'
make vmlinux would delete the content of $(MODVERDIR)
equals .tmp_versions. This caused a subsequent
make modules_install to fail.

Fix it so we clean the directory only for the
modules build - but we still unconditionally create it so
we can do:
make dir/file.ko
without a preceeding make modules.

Reported by David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-22 20:04:37 +02:00
David Brownell
0b463ff139 kbuild: fix toplevel Makefile/depmod
This removes a syntax error (seen building on Ubuntu Feisty).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-20 20:10:19 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
4800be295c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
  kbuild: fix first module build
  kconfig: update kconfig-language text
  kbuild: introduce cc-cross-prefix
  kbuild: disable depmod in cross-compile kernel build
  kbuild: make deb-pkg - add 'Provides:' line
  kconfig: comment typo in scripts/kconfig/Makefile.
  kbuild: stop docproc segfaulting when SRCTREE isn't set.
  kbuild: modpost problem when symbols move from one module to another
  kbuild: cscope - filter out .tmp_* in find_sources
  kbuild: mailing list has moved
  kbuild: check asm symlink when building a kernel
2007-10-19 13:47:38 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
7bb9d092de kbuild: fix first module build
When building a specific module before doing a total kernel
build it failed because $(MORVERDIR) were missing.
Creating the MODVERDIR explicit (independent of KBUILD_MODULES)
fixed this. As a side-effect the MODVERDIR will be created
also for a non-module build - but no harm done by that.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-19 22:20:02 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
267c4025f2 markers: Add samples subdir
Begin infrastructure for kernel code samples in the samples/ directory.
Add its Kconfig and Kbuild files.
Source its Kconfig file in all arch/ Kconfigs.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:55 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
50a8ec31c3 kbuild: disable depmod in cross-compile kernel build
When building embedded systems in a cross-compile environment and
populating a target's file system image, we don't want to run the
depmod on the host as we may be building for a completely different
architecture. Since there's no such thing as a cross-depmod, we
just disable running depmod in the cross-compile case and we just
run depmod on the target at bootup.

Inspired by patches from Christian, Armin and Deepak.

This solves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3881

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Christian Bjølevik <nafallo@magicalforest.se>
Cc: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@mvista.com> and
Cc: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>,
2007-10-18 23:17:06 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
37ab7a2696 kbuild: cscope - filter out .tmp_* in find_sources
remove .tmp_kallsyms*.S in cscope.files

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-18 13:35:49 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
fc333b2df3 kbuild: check asm symlink when building a kernel
We often hit the situation where the asm symlink
in include/ points to the wrong architecture.
In 9 out of 10 cases thats because we forgot to set
ARCH but sometimes we just reused the same tree
for another ARCH. For the merged x86 tree we need
to create a new symlink but this is not obvious.
So with the following patch we check if the symlink
points to the correct architecture and error
out if this is not the case.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-18 09:06:34 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
f8bea58b6a kbuild: fix typo SRCARCH in find_sources
otherwise get the two copy file list in SRCARCH

for cscope:
C symbol: start_kernel

  File           Function            Line
0 proto.h        <global>              11 extern void start_kernel(void );
1 start_kernel.h <global>              10 extern asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void );
2 head32.c       i386_start_kernel     37 start_kernel();
3 head32.c       i386_start_kernel     37 start_kernel();
4 head64.c       x86_64_start_kernel   85 start_kernel();
5 head64.c       x86_64_start_kernel   85 start_kernel();
6 head_32.S      options              199 cmpb $0,%cl #the first CPU calls start_kernel
7 head_32.S      options              199 cmpb $0,%cl #the first CPU calls start_kernel
8 enlighten.c    xen_start_kernel    1145 start_kernel();
9 enlighten.c    xen_start_kernel    1145 start_kernel();
a lguest.c       lguest_init         1095 start_kernel();
b main.c         start_kernel         513 asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void )

after the patch:
C symbol: start_kernel

  File           Function            Line
0 proto.h        <global>              11 extern void start_kernel(void );
1 start_kernel.h <global>              10 extern asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void );
2 head32.c       i386_start_kernel     37 start_kernel();
3 head64.c       x86_64_start_kernel   85 start_kernel();
4 head_32.S      options              199 cmpb $0,%cl #the first CPU calls start_kernel
5 enlighten.c    xen_start_kernel    1145 start_kernel();
6 lguest.c       lguest_init         1095 start_kernel();
7 main.c         start_kernel         513 asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void )

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-17 21:39:23 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
06c5040cdb kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP
The variable CPPFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.

This patch replace use of CPPFLAGS with KBUILD_CPPFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CPPFLAGS=...
to specify additional CPP commandline options.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15 22:17:25 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
52bcc3308a kbuild: enable use of AFLAGS and CFLAGS on commandline
The previous patches was preparation.
With this patch we can now say:
make CFLAGS=-Os vmlinux

And the option specified will be appended to the
options passed to gcc for C files.

For assembler use:
make AFLAGS=-foo vmlinux
for the same functionality.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15 22:03:58 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
222d394d30 kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS
The variable AFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.

This patch replace use of AFLAGS with KBUILD_AFLAGS all over
the tree.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15 21:59:31 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
a0f97e06a4 kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC
The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.

This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CFLAGS=...
to specify additional gcc commandline options.

One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
use cases has been requested too.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k

Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
that nothing got rebuild.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-14 22:21:35 +02:00