On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 01:58:22PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> If LD or AS is specified on the command line using "make LD=<my-ld>",
> the endianness flag will not be added. Depending on the toolchain used,
> this can result in endianness mismatch errors, such as
> 
> aarch64-cros-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.27.0/ld.bfd.real:
> arch/arm64/crypto/.tmp_aes-ce-cipher.o:
>       compiled for a big endian system and target is little endian
> 
> The problem was observed when using the Chrome OS build system (which sets
> LD on the command line) for an arm64:allmodconfig build.
> 
> Use the override flag for both LD and AS to ensure that the endianness
> flag is always set.
> 
> Cc: Douglas Anderson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

Please ignore this patch for now; it doesn't help with my problem. Not yet
sure what happens, but it appears that "-EB" doesn't make it into the LD
variable used by cmd_make_builtin in scripts/Makefile.build. I'll have
to figure out what is going on.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
>  arch/arm64/Makefile | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> index 939b310913cf..d780d00bea9c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> @@ -56,15 +56,15 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS     += $(call cc-option,-mabi=lp64)
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN), y)
>  KBUILD_CPPFLAGS      += -mbig-endian
>  CHECKFLAGS   += -D__AARCH64EB__
> -AS           += -EB
> -LD           += -EB
> +override AS          += -EB
> +override LD          += -EB
>  LDFLAGS              += -maarch64linuxb
>  UTS_MACHINE  := aarch64_be
>  else
>  KBUILD_CPPFLAGS      += -mlittle-endian
>  CHECKFLAGS   += -D__AARCH64EL__
> -AS           += -EL
> -LD           += -EL
> +override AS          += -EL
> +override LD          += -EL
>  LDFLAGS              += -maarch64linux
>  UTS_MACHINE  := aarch64
>  endif
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

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