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Re: [XEN PATCH 02/15] build: rework asm-offsets.* build step to use kbuild


  • To: Luca Fancellu <Luca.Fancellu@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 10:01:03 +0200
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On 24.05.2023 09:39, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>> On 23 May 2023, at 17:37, Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Instead of having a special $(cmd_asm-offsets.s) command, we could
>> probably reuse $(cmd_cc_s_c) from Rules.mk, but that would mean that
>> an hypothetical additional flags "-flto" in CFLAGS would not be
>> removed anymore, not sure if that matter here.
>>
>> But then we could write this:
>>
>> targets += arch/$(TARGET_ARCH)/$(TARGET_SUBARCH)/asm-offsets.s
>> arch/$(TARGET_ARCH)/$(TARGET_SUBARCH)/asm-offsets.s: CFLAGS-y += -g0
>> arch/$(TARGET_ARCH)/include/asm/asm-offsets.h: 
>> arch/$(TARGET_ARCH)/$(TARGET_SUBARCH)/asm-offsets.s FORCE
>>
>> instead of having to write a rule for asm-offsets.s
> 
> The solution above seems clean, maybe I am wrong but -flto should not matter 
> here as we are
> not building objects to include in the final build, isn’t it? And gcc 
> documentation states just:
> 
> “It is recommended that you compile all the files participating in the same 
> link with the same
> options and also specify those options at link time."
> 
> I’ve also tested this patch and it works fine, I have to say however that I 
> preferred
> a more verbose output, so that people can check how we are invoking the 
> compiler,
> but I guess now it’s more consistent with the other invocations that doesn’t 
> print
> the compiler invocation.

If you want it more verbose, you can pass V=1 on the make command line.
(Of course that'll affect all commands' output.)

Jan



 


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