There's not much sense in doing that because if user or his build-system didn't set CROSS_COMPILE we still may very well make incorrect guess.
But as it turned out setting CROSS_COMPILE is not as harmless as one may think: with recent changes that implemented automatic discovery of __host__ gcc features unconditional setup of CROSS_COMPILE leads to failures on execution of "make xxx_defconfig" with absent cross-compiler, for more info see [1]. Set CROSS_COMPILE as well gets in the way if we want only to build .dtb's (again with absent cross-compiler which is not really needed for building .dtb's), see [2]. Note, we had to change LIBGCC assignment type from ":=" to "=" so that is is resolved on its usage, otherwise if it is resolved at declaration time with missing CROSS_COMPILE we're getting this error message from host GCC: ------------------------->8------------------------- gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mmedium-calls’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mno-sdata’; did you mean ‘-fno-stats’? ------------------------->8------------------------- [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-September/004308.html [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-September/004320.html Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> Cc: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> --- arch/arc/Makefile | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arc/Makefile b/arch/arc/Makefile index 99cce77ab98f..5f6b67917dc2 100644 --- a/arch/arc/Makefile +++ b/arch/arc/Makefile @@ -6,14 +6,6 @@ # published by the Free Software Foundation. # -ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),) -ifndef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN -CROSS_COMPILE := arc-linux- -else -CROSS_COMPILE := arceb-linux- -endif -endif - KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := nsim_700_defconfig cflags-y += -fno-common -pipe -fno-builtin -mmedium-calls -D__linux__ @@ -79,7 +71,7 @@ cflags-$(disable_small_data) += -mno-sdata -fcall-used-gp cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += -mbig-endian ldflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += -EB -LIBGCC := $(shell $(CC) $(cflags-y) --print-libgcc-file-name) +LIBGCC = $(shell $(CC) $(cflags-y) --print-libgcc-file-name) # Modules with short calls might break for calls into builtin-kernel KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += -mlong-calls -mno-millicode -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ linux-snps-arc mailing list linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-snps-arc
