Hello!

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On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 01:12, Masahiro Yamada [off-list ref] wrote:

I am wondering how "HOSTLDFLAGS_sign-file" and
"HOSTLDFLAGS_extract-cert" worked for you.
Kbuild supports HOSTLDLIBS_<target> syntax,
but not HOSTLDFLAGS_<target>.

Thanks for the insight! The pointer you have provided are very
valuable to try to fix our problem.

What effectively happened was that LDFLAGS was removed, and therefore
the gcc line did not include one -L path that's proving difficult to
use under OpenEmbedded cross-compilations. This discussion has
provided much light in areas that are unknown to me, but so far it
looks like the fix will need to happen in the OE recipe and not in the
kernel itself.

Thanks and greetings!

Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@linaro.org

I see $(HOSTLDLIBS_$(target-stem) in scripts/Makefile.host
but failed to find $(HOSTLDFLAGS_$(target-stem)).

So, presumably you will get the same result
(OE build error will be fixed)
even without HOSTLDFLAGS_sign-file
or HOSTLDFLAGS_extract-cert.



But, I am still wondering what the correct approach is.



Basically, there are two ways to link libraries
in non-standard paths.



[1] Give linker flags via HOSTLDFLAGS

   This is documented in Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst

   HOSTLDFLAGS
   -----------
   Additional flags to be passed when linking host programs.




[2] Use pkg-config






OE already adopted [1].

I think the following long lines came from HOSTLDFLAGS.

    -isystem/oe/build/tmp/work/MACHINE/linux/5.10+gitAUTOINC+b01f250d83-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include
\
    -O2 -pipe -L/oe/build/tmp/work/MACHINE/linux/5.10+gitAUTOINC+b01f250d83-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib
\
    -L/oe/build/tmp/work/MACHINE/linux/5.10+gitAUTOINC+b01f250d83-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/lib
\
    -Wl,-rpath-link,/oe/build/tmp/work/MACHINE/linux/5.10+gitAUTOINC+b01f250d83-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib
\
    -Wl,-rpath-link,/oe/build/tmp/work/MACHINE/linux/5.10+gitAUTOINC+b01f250d83-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/lib
\
    -Wl,-rpath,/oe/build/tmp/work/MACHINE/linux/5.10+gitAUTOINC+b01f250d83-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib
\
    -Wl,-rpath,/oe/build/tmp/work/MACHINE/linux/5.10+gitAUTOINC+b01f250d83-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/lib
\
    -Wl,-O1 -I/oe/build/tmp/work/MACHINE/linux/5.10+gitAUTOINC+b01f250d83-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include
\
    -I ./scripts -o scripts/extract-cert \




But, some people are not satisfied with [1] (or do not notice it)?


Then, 2cea4a7a1885 introduced the second one [2].

Mixing [1] and [2] perhaps confuses the build system somehow?




So, 2cea4a7a1885 was a problem, but
I do not think this patch is the right one either.

(At least, HOSTLDFLAGS_* additions are pointless)




--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada