Commit 5ef7bbb09f ("perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker
command") was meant to enable usage non $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld linker during
perf building.
But implementation didn't take into account the fact that LD is a
pre-defined variable in GNU Make. I.e. it is always defined.
Which means there's no point to check "LD ?= ..." because it will never
succeed.
And so LD will be either that explicitly passed to make like this:
------->8-------
make LD=path_to_my_ld ...
------->8-------
or default value, which is host's "ld".
Latter leads to failure of cross-linkage because instead of cross linker
"$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld" host's "ld" is used.
Fortunately there's a way to do correct substitution of $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
with user defined LD on command-line.
As a reference was used implementation in "tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile".
Build tested for x86_64 and ARC.
Thanks Jiri for this hint.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Fixes: 5ef7bbb09f ("perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker command")
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436864720-26316-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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