kbuild: do not pick up CFLAGS from the environment
authorSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:00:46 +0000 (19:00 +0100)
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:00:46 +0000 (19:00 +0100)
Too many people have CFLAGS set to support building userspace.
And now Kbuild picks up CFLAGS this caused troubles.

Although people should realise that setting CFLAGS has
a 'global' effect the impact on the kernel build is a suprise.
So change kbuild to pick up value from KCFLAGS that is
much less used.

When kbuild pick up a value it will warn like this:
Makefile:544: "WARNING: Appending $KCFLAGS (-O3) from environment to kernel $CFLAGS"

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Makefile

index 188c3b6b3fa9ac33fbe9fba2417365eae23585d6..cb740d4d4e8cb89f67d7a542fbe804e6afe1b604 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -528,9 +528,22 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-pointer-sign,)
 
 # Add user supplied CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS as the last assignments
-KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(CPPFLAGS)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS   += $(AFLAGS)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(CFLAGS)
+# But warn user when we do so
+warn-assign = \
+$(warning "WARNING: Appending $$K$(1) ($(K$(1))) from $(origin K$(1)) to kernel $$$(1)")
+
+ifneq ($(KCPPFLAGS),)
+        $(call warn-assign,CPPFLAGS)
+        KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(KCPPFLAGS)
+endif
+ifneq ($(KAFLAGS),)
+        $(call warn-assign,AFLAGS)
+        KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(KAFLAGS)
+endif
+ifneq ($(KCFLAGS),)
+        $(call warn-assign,CFLAGS)
+        KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KCFLAGS)
+endif
 
 # Use --build-id when available.
 LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID = $(patsubst -Wl$(comma)%,%,\