cc-cross-prefix is useful for the architecture that like
to provide a default CROSS_COMPILE value,
but may have several to select between.

Sample usage:

ifneq ($(SUBARCH),$(ARCH))
        ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
               CROSS_COMPILE := $(call cc-cross-prefix, m68k-linux-gnu- m68k-linux-)
        endif
endif

Actual usage by the different archs will taken care of later.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

The variable AFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.

This patch replace use of AFLAGS with KBUILD_AFLAGS all over
the tree.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.

This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CFLAGS=...
to specify additional gcc commandline options.

One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
use cases has been requested too.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k

Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
that nothing got rebuild.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Prints a six-digit string including the GCC patchlevel.  Also fix
the 'usage' comment for cc-version.

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

This adds the remaining changes which should have been part of the
review process.

 - the define command is inappropriate (it's primarily for rule
   definitions)
 - execute commands in the current dir as all other commands
 - .*.tmp (but not .*.null) files are also removed up by "make clean"
 - printf has other side effects, just use "echo -e"
 - proper quoting
 - proper indentation

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Michal Ostrowski points out what the real problem was: the spaces at the
start of the definition of the 'checker-shell' make function.

Cc: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It looks like GNU make version 3.80 (but apparently not 3.81) adds
leading whitespace to the result of the checker-shell execution.  This
strips them off explicitly.

Also, don't bother symlinking the output file to /dev/null.  It's likely
as expensive as just writing the temp-file, and we need to remove it
anyway afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Do not use whitespace in arguments of functions in makefiles, as they
propagate further without notice.  Thus we get

  + echo ' y'

  instead of

  + echo y

Fix misleading comments.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

 GNU binutils, root users, tmpfiles, external modules ro builds must
 be fixed to do the right thing now.

Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Horst Schirmeier <horst@schirmeier.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The as-instr/ld-option need to create temporary files, but create them in the
output directory, when compiling external modules.  Reformat them a bit and
use $(CC) instead of $(AS) as the former is used by kbuild to assemble files.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: <jpdenheijer@gmail.com>
Cc: Horst Schirmeier <horst@schirmeier.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>