Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] kernel-2.eclass: use $(CC) as HOSTCC, bug #725878

[Manoj Gupta]

Also see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1088210 on
Chrome OS.

Verified that this fixes the linux-headers build issue when gcc links are
not installed.

Thanks,
Manoj

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 5:24 AM Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
wrote:

> Before the change HOSTCC always used gcc. This was
> detected by Agostino on linux-headers package.
>
> After the change HOSTCC uses user-specified CC
> (or BUILD_CC). Tested on native linux-headers
> and on cross-*/linux-headers.
>
> CC: kernel@g.o
> Reported-by: Agostino Sarubbo
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/725878
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
> ---
>  eclass/kernel-2.eclass | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/eclass/kernel-2.eclass b/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
> index 930bcf22e29..04edee33930 100644
> --- a/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
> +++ b/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
> @@ -712,6 +712,7 @@ env_setup_xmakeopts() {
>         elif type -p ${CHOST}-ar > /dev/null ; then
>                 xmakeopts="${xmakeopts} CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}-"
>         fi
> +       xmakeopts="${xmakeopts} HOSTCC=$(tc-getBUILD_CC)"
>         export xmakeopts
>  }
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>
>
>