Re: powerpc/Makefile: Use cflags-y/aflags-y for setting endian options

On Tue, 2016-09-08 at 12:43:46 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:

When we introduced the little endian support, we added the endian flags
to CC directly using override. I don't know the history of why we did
that, I suspect no one does.

Although this mostly works, it has one bug, which is that CROSS32CC
doesn't get -mbig-endian. That means when the compiler is little endian
by default and the user is building big endian, vdso32 is incorrectly
compiled as little endian and the kernel fails to build.

Instead we can add the endian flags to cflags-y/aflags-y, and then
append those to KBUILD_CFLAGS/KBUILD_AFLAGS.

This has the advantage of being 1) less ugly, 2) the documented way of
adding flags in the arch Makefile and 3) it fixes building vdso32 with a
LE toolchain.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Applied to powerpc fixes.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/164af597ce945751e2dcd53d0a

cheers