scripts/mkcompile_h uses $(CC) only for getting the version string.
I suspected there was a specific reason why the additional flags were
needed, and dug the commit history. This code dates back to at least
2002 [1], but I could not get any more clue.
Just get rid of it.
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=
29f3df7eba8ddf91a55183f9967f76fbcc3ab742
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
@$($(quiet)chk_compile.h)
$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkcompile_h $@ \
"$(UTS_MACHINE)" "$(CONFIG_SMP)" "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT)" \
- "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)" "$(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)" "$(LD)"
+ "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)" "$(CC)" "$(LD)"