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	kbuild: cross-compile linux-headers package when possible
A long standing issue in the upstream kernel packaging is that the
linux-headers package is not cross-compiled.
For example, you can cross-build Debian packages for arm64 by running
the following command:
  $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- bindeb-pkg
However, the generated linux-headers-*_arm64.deb is useless because the
host programs in it were built for your build machine architecture
(likely x86), not arm64.
The Debian kernel maintains its own Makefiles to cross-compile host
tools without relying on Kbuild. [1]
Instead of adding such full custom Makefiles, this commit adds a small
piece of code to cross-compile host programs located under the scripts/
directory.
A straightforward solution is to pass HOSTCC=${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc, but it
would also cross-compile scripts/basic/fixdep, which needs to be native
to process the if_changed_dep macro. (This approach may work under some
circumstances; you can execute foreign architecture programs with the
help of binfmt_misc because Debian systems enable CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC,
but it would require installing QEMU and libc for that architecture.)
A trick is to use the external module build (KBUILD_EXTMOD=), which
does not rebuild scripts/basic/fixdep. ${CC} needs to be able to link
userspace programs (CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK=y).
There are known limitations:
 - GCC plugins
   It would possible to rebuild GCC plugins for the target architecture
   by passing HOSTCXX=${CROSS_COMPILE}g++ with necessary packages
   installed, but gcc on the installed system emits
   "cc1: error: incompatible gcc/plugin versions".
 - objtool and resolve_btfids
   These are built by the tools build system. They are not covered by
   the current solution. The resulting linux-headers package is broken
   if CONFIG_OBJTOOL or CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is enabled.
I only tested this with Debian, but it should work for other package
systems as well.
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/debian/6.9.9-1/debian/rules.real#L586
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
			
			
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		|  | @ -44,4 +44,38 @@ mkdir -p "${destdir}" | ||||||
| 	fi | 	fi | ||||||
| } | tar -c -f - -T - | tar -xf - -C "${destdir}" | } | tar -c -f - -T - | tar -xf - -C "${destdir}" | ||||||
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 | ||||||
|  | # When ${CC} and ${HOSTCC} differ, we are likely cross-compiling. Rebuild host | ||||||
|  | # programs using ${CC}. This assumes CC=${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc, which is usually | ||||||
|  | # the case for package building. It does not cross-compile when CC=clang. | ||||||
|  | # | ||||||
|  | # This caters to host programs that participate in Kbuild. objtool and | ||||||
|  | # resolve_btfids are out of scope. | ||||||
|  | if [ "${CC}" != "${HOSTCC}" ] && is_enabled CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK; then | ||||||
|  | 	echo "Rebuilding host programs with ${CC}..." | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | 	cat <<-'EOF' >  "${destdir}/Kbuild" | ||||||
|  | 	subdir-y := scripts | ||||||
|  | 	EOF | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | 	# HOSTCXX is not overridden. The C++ compiler is used to build: | ||||||
|  | 	# - scripts/kconfig/qconf, which is unneeded for external module builds | ||||||
|  | 	# - GCC plugins, which will not work on the installed system even after | ||||||
|  | 	#   being rebuilt. | ||||||
|  | 	# | ||||||
|  | 	# Use the single-target build to avoid the modpost invocation, which | ||||||
|  | 	# would overwrite Module.symvers. | ||||||
|  | 	"${MAKE}" HOSTCC="${CC}" KBUILD_EXTMOD="${destdir}" scripts/ | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | 	cat <<-'EOF' >  "${destdir}/scripts/Kbuild" | ||||||
|  | 	subdir-y := basic | ||||||
|  | 	hostprogs-always-y := mod/modpost | ||||||
|  | 	mod/modpost-objs := $(addprefix mod/, modpost.o file2alias.o sumversion.o symsearch.o) | ||||||
|  | 	EOF | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | 	# Run once again to rebuild scripts/basic/ and scripts/mod/modpost. | ||||||
|  | 	"${MAKE}" HOSTCC="${CC}" KBUILD_EXTMOD="${destdir}" scripts/ | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | 	rm -f "${destdir}/Kbuild" "${destdir}/scripts/Kbuild" | ||||||
|  | fi | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
| find "${destdir}" \( -name '.*.cmd' -o -name '*.o' \) -delete | find "${destdir}" \( -name '.*.cmd' -o -name '*.o' \) -delete | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
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