tree 62ee9c21670b825e50b7c8e6d92f0b2948977ec2
parent a7fde09a78a8ae40b81cfb5096c3cefef6c078c9
author Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com> 1436864720 +0300
committer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1436972248 -0300

perf tools: Really allow to specify custom CC, AR or LD

Commit 5ef7bbb09f7b ("perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker
command") was meant to enable usage non $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld linker during
perf building.

But implementation didn't take into account the fact that LD is a
pre-defined variable in GNU Make. I.e. it is always defined.

Which means there's no point to check "LD ?= ..." because it will never
succeed.

And so LD will be either that explicitly passed to make like this:

 ------->8-------
 make LD=path_to_my_ld ...
 ------->8-------
 or default value, which is host's "ld".

Latter leads to failure of cross-linkage because instead of cross linker
"$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld" host's "ld" is used.

Fortunately there's a way to do correct substitution of $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
with user defined LD on command-line.

As a reference was used implementation in "tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile".

Build tested for x86_64 and ARC.

Thanks Jiri for this hint.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Fixes: 5ef7bbb09f7b ("perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker command")
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436864720-26316-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>