[coreboot-gerrit] New patch to review for coreboot: 6791d3d buildsystem: check for coreboot toolchain by default

Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi-clan.de) gerrit at coreboot.org
Sun Dec 29 18:53:05 CET 2013


Patrick Georgi (patrick at georgi-clan.de) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/4584

-gerrit

commit 6791d3d1228df60c9b1f7231842cebf9eff068df
Author: Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de>
Date:   Sun Dec 29 18:45:23 2013 +0100

    buildsystem: check for coreboot toolchain by default
    
    Other toolchains just don't cut it.
    
    Change-Id: I7a0bdf60d89b5166c9a22c9e9f3f326b28f777b8
    Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de>
---
 Makefile.inc | 12 ++++++++++++
 src/Kconfig  | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile.inc b/Makefile.inc
index 0fb86ce..273c542 100644
--- a/Makefile.inc
+++ b/Makefile.inc
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ export KERNELVERSION := $(shell if [ -d "$(top)/.git" -a -f "`which git`" ]; \
        else echo 4.0$(KERNELREVISION); fi)
 
 #######################################################################
+# Test for coreboot toolchain (except when explicitely not requested)
+ifneq ($(NOCOMPILE),1)
+# only run if we're doing a build (not for tests, kconfig, ...)
+ifneq ($(CONFIG_ANY_TOOLCHAIN),y)
+_toolchain=$(shell $(CC) -v 2>&1 |grep -q "gcc version .*coreboot toolchain" && echo coreboot)
+ifneq ($(_toolchain),coreboot)
+$(error Please use the coreboot toolchain (or prove that your toolchain works))
+endif
+endif
+endif
+
+#######################################################################
 # Basic component discovery
 MAINBOARDDIR=$(call strip_quotes,$(CONFIG_MAINBOARD_DIR))
 export MAINBOARDDIR
diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig
index 1c80b8c..943cdef 100644
--- a/src/Kconfig
+++ b/src/Kconfig
@@ -79,6 +79,16 @@ config COMPILER_LLVM_CLANG
 
 endchoice
 
+config ANY_TOOLCHAIN
+	bool "Allow building with any toolchain"
+	default n
+	depends on COMPILER_GCC
+	help
+	  Many toolchains break when building coreboot since it uses quite
+	  unusual linker features. Unless developers explicitely request it,
+	  we'll have to assume that they use their distro compiler by mistake.
+	  Make sure that using patched compilers is a conscious decision.
+
 config SCANBUILD_ENABLE
 	bool "Build with scan-build for static code analysis"
 	default n



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