Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - do not generate unneeded top-level built-in.a

 - let git ignore O= directory entirely

 - optimize scripts/kallsyms slightly

 - exclude DWARF info from *.s regardless of config options

 - fix GCC toolchain search path for Clang to prepare ld.lld support

 - do not generate modules.order when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - simplify single target rules and remove VPATH for external module
   build

 - allow to add optional flags to dpkg-buildpackage when building
   deb-pkg

 - move some compiler option tests from Makefile to Kconfig

 - various Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits)
  kbuild: remove scripts/basic/% build target
  kbuild: use -Werror=implicit-... instead of -Werror-implicit-...
  kbuild: clean up scripts/gcc-version.sh
  kbuild: remove cc-version macro
  kbuild: update comment block of scripts/clang-version.sh
  kbuild: remove commented-out INITRD_COMPRESS
  kbuild: move -gsplit-dwarf, -gdwarf-4 option tests to Kconfig
  kbuild: [bin]deb-pkg: add DPKG_FLAGS variable
  kbuild: move ".config not found!" message from Kconfig to Makefile
  kbuild: invoke syncconfig if include/config/auto.conf.cmd is missing
  kbuild: simplify single target rules
  kbuild: remove empty rules for makefiles
  kbuild: make -r/-R effective in top Makefile for old Make versions
  kbuild: move tools_silent to a more relevant place
  kbuild: compute false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized cases in Kconfig
  kbuild: refactor cc-cross-prefix implementation
  kbuild: hardcode genksyms path and remove GENKSYMS variable
  scripts/gdb: refactor rules for symlink creation
  kbuild: create symlink to vmlinux-gdb.py in scripts_gdb target
  scripts/gdb: do not descend into scripts/gdb from scripts
  ...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index bf28c47bfd72..f124be6e4c3a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -154,13 +154,8 @@ more details, with real examples.
 
 	Kbuild compiles all the $(obj-y) files.  It then calls
 	"$(AR) rcSTP" to merge these files into one built-in.a file.
-	This is a thin archive without a symbol table, which makes it
-	unsuitable as a linker input.
-
-	The scripts/link-vmlinux.sh script later makes an aggregate
-	built-in.a with "${AR} rcsTP", which creates the thin archive
-	with a symbol table and an index, making it a valid input for
-	the final vmlinux link passes.
+	This is a thin archive without a symbol table. It will be later
+	linked into vmlinux by scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
 
 	The order of files in $(obj-y) is significant.  Duplicates in
 	the lists are allowed: the first instance will be linked into
@@ -504,23 +499,6 @@ more details, with real examples.
 	In the above example, -Wno-unused-but-set-variable will be added to
 	KBUILD_CFLAGS only if gcc really accepts it.
 
-    cc-version
-	cc-version returns a numerical version of the $(CC) compiler version.
-	The format is <major><minor> where both are two digits. So for example
-	gcc 3.41 would return 0341.
-	cc-version is useful when a specific $(CC) version is faulty in one
-	area, for example -mregparm=3 was broken in some gcc versions
-	even though the option was accepted by gcc.
-
-	Example:
-		#arch/x86/Makefile
-		cflags-y += $(shell \
-		if [ $(cc-version) -ge 0300 ] ; then \
-			echo "-mregparm=3"; fi ;)
-
-	In the above example, -mregparm=3 is only used for gcc version greater
-	than or equal to gcc 3.0.
-
     cc-ifversion
 	cc-ifversion tests the version of $(CC) and equals the fourth parameter
 	if version expression is true, or the fifth (if given) if the version