Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] build fixes for cross-compiling

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/09/2011 01:22, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> On 29.09.11 at 10:00, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We have LDFLAGS_DIRECT, adding LDFLAGS_INDIRECT seems a bit gross
>> though... I wonder if perhaps LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS_DIRECT should be
>> mut8lly exclusive, i.e. direct calls to the linker use only the latter
>> and not both?
> 
> Actually I always found it wrong to read commands like "$(CC) $(LDFLAGS)"
> - imo xxxFLAGS should be passed exclusively to tool xxx. So rather than
> having LDFLAGS_DIRECT, I'd suggest cleaning this up and having e.g.
> CCLDFLAGS or CC_LINK_FLAGS or some such.

Or perhaps we could arrange to only link via direct invocation of ld? Apart
from the hassle of changing all our Makefiles, is there a good reason to use
gcc as a linker wrapper?

 -- Keir

> Jan
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