[PATCH 00/15] Add support for clang LTO

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Mark Rutland [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 11:07:04AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:

quoted

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Mark Rutland [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I had to create an aarch64-linux-gnu-clang wrapper, too. I'm not sure if
there's build system help to avoid needing that?

Gah!  So a BIG difference with Clang vs GCC for cross compiling is
that Clang by default ships with all backends enabled, and uses a
`-target <triple>` CFLAG to determine the arch to cross compile for,
while GCC is configured at compile time to support one back end, IIUC.

Yup.

I initally tried passing CC=clang\ --target=aarch64-linux-gnu

... but since that conflicts with CROSS_COMPILE, you then have to
override AS, LD, OBJCOPY, etc, separately too.

make CC=clang CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-

I think you may need a trailing hyphen on your target as it gets
prefixed onto as and ld:

Makefile:

 348 # Make variables (CC, etc...)
 349 AS    = $(CROSS_COMPILE)as
 350 LD    = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld