Handling of CONFIG_EXTRA_LDFLAGS in submakes

[Denys Vlasenko]

Fixed (hopefully). Can you try current git?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Greg Whiteley <greg.whiteley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've run into trouble setting CONFIG_EXTRA_LDFLAGS in my config.  It is not
> honoured in some of the sub-make files (first failure is in applets).  In my
> specific case I'm selecting architecture-specific options that need to be
> consistent across all build/link steps (in this case endian-selection).
>
> The handling of CONFIG_EXTRA_LDFLAGS defined in a defconfig seems to be
> different from the handling of CONFIG_EXTRA_(LDLIBS|CFLAGS).  Whereas
> CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS is loaded into CFLAGS by Makefile.flags
> CONFIG_EXTRA_LDFLAGS is loaded into EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
>
> Adding EXTRA_LDFLAGS to the list of exports in Makefile works around the
> problem for me and ensures that the the flags are available to sub-makes.
>
> I thought it worth noting to you, since as far as I can tell EXTRA_LDFLAGS
> provides a slightly different service to LDFLAGS, and I'm not sure that my
> workaround would be generally applicable. I think a longer term fix might
> involve having different CONFIG_ options to override EXTRA_LDFLAGS
> separately to LDFLAGS.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg
>
>
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