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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...>, <mingo@...>, <thomas@...>, <tglx@...>, LKML <linux-kernel@...>, linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Subject: [GIT PULL] kbuild: do not pick up CFLAGS from the environment
Date: Sunday, November 4, 2007 - 2:24 pm

Hi Linus.

Please apply following fix.

Pull from:

  ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/fix-kbuild.git

	Sam


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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 19:00:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: do not pick up CFLAGS from the environment
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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>
---
 Makefile |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 188c3b6..cb740d4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -528,9 +528,22 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-pointer-sign,)
 
 # Add user supplied CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS as the last assignments
-KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(CPPFLAGS)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS   += $(AFLAGS)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(CFLAGS)
+# But warn user when we do so
+warn-assign = \
+$(warning "WARNING: Appending $$K$(1) ($(K$(1))) from $(origin K$(1)) to kernel $$$(1)")
+
+ifneq ($(KCPPFLAGS),)
+        $(call warn-assign,CPPFLAGS)
+        KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(KCPPFLAGS)
+endif
+ifneq ($(KAFLAGS),)
+        $(call warn-assign,AFLAGS)
+        KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(KAFLAGS)
+endif
+ifneq ($(KCFLAGS),)
+        $(call warn-assign,CFLAGS)
+        KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KCFLAGS)
+endif
 
 # Use --build-id when available.
 LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID = $(patsubst -Wl$(comma)%,%,\
-- 
1.5.3.4.1157.g0e74-dirty

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