The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition in arch/powerpc/Makefile has never worked in a useful way because it is always overridden by the following code in the top Makefile:
# use the deterministic mode of AR if available KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D) The code in the top Makefile was added in 2011, by commit 40df759e2b9e ("kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19"). The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition for ppc has always been dead code from the beginning. Nobody has reported a problem since 43c9127d94d6 ("powerpc: Add option to use thin archives"), so this code was unneeded. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> --- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index c345b79414a9..46ed198a3aa3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ ifeq ($(HAS_BIARCH),y) KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m$(BITS) KBUILD_AFLAGS += -m$(BITS) -Wl,-a$(BITS) KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -m elf$(BITS)$(LDEMULATION) -KBUILD_ARFLAGS += --target=elf$(BITS)-$(GNUTARGET) endif cflags-$(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR) += -mstack-protector-guard=tls -- 2.17.1