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authorAntony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>2013-04-03 18:42:33 +0400
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2013-04-08 11:47:41 +0200
commit5b83df2b4661c03373b38374d0ef830b7819b875 (patch)
treeb416f77435f6d10ebdf210fe7a417c21e9f8c990 /Documentation/kbuild
parenta937536b868b8369b98967929045f1df54234323 (diff)
downloadlinux-5b83df2b4661c03373b38374d0ef830b7819b875.tar.gz
kbuild: fix ld-option function
The kbuild's ld-option function is broken because
the command
  $(CC) /dev/null -c -o "$$TMPO"
does not create object file!

I have used a relatively old mips gcc 3.4.6 cross-compiler
and a relatively new gcc 4.7.2 to check this fact
but the results are the same.

EXAMPLE:
  $ rm /tmp/1.o
  $ mips-linux-gcc /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o
  mips-linux-gcc: /dev/null: linker input file unused because linking not done
  $ ls -la /tmp/1.o
  ls: cannot access /tmp/1.o: No such file or directory

We can easily fix the problem by adding
the '-x c' compiler option.

EXAMPLE:
  $ rm /tmp/1.o
  $ mips-linux-gcc -x c /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o
  $ ls -la /tmp/1.o
  -rw-r--r-- 1 antony antony 778 Apr  2 20:40 /tmp/1.o

Also fix wrong ld-option example.

Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 5198b742fde1..5836294fdbf7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
 
 	Example:
 		#Makefile
-		LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(call really-ld-option, -X)
+		LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(call ld-option, -X)
 
 
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