kbuild.txt

Environment variables

KCPPFLAGS
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Additional options to pass when preprocessing. The preprocessing options
will be used in all cases where kbuild does preprocessing including
building C files and assembler files.

KAFLAGS
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Additional options to the assembler.

KCFLAGS
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Additional options to the C compiler.

KBUILD_VERBOSE
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Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assigned same values as "V=...".
See make help for the full list.
Setting "V=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_VERBOSE.

KBUILD_EXTMOD
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Set the directory to look for the kernel source when building external
modules.
The directory can be specified in several ways:
1) Use "M=..." on the command line
2) Environmnet variable KBUILD_EXTMOD
3) Environmnet variable SUBDIRS
The possibilities are listed in the order they take precedence.
Using "M=..." will always override the others.

KBUILD_OUTPUT
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Specify the output directory when building the kernel.
The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...".
Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT.

ARCH
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Set ARCH to the architecture to be built.
In most cases the name of the architecture is the same as the
directory name found in the arch/ directory.
But some architectures such as x86 and sparc have aliases.
x86: i386 for 32 bit, x86_64 for 64 bit
sparc: sparc for 32 bit, sparc64 for 64 bit

CROSS_COMPILE
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Specify an optional fixed part of the binutils filename.
CROSS_COMPILE can be a part of the filename or the full path.

CROSS_COMPILE is also used for ccache is some setups.

CF
--------------------------------------------------
Additional options for sparse.
CF is often used on the command-line like this:

    make CF=-Wbitwise C=2

INSTALL_PATH
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INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map
images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values.


MODLIB
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Specify where to install modules.
The default value is:

     $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)

The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.

INSTALL_MOD_PATH
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INSTALL_MOD_PATH specifies a prefix to MODLIB for module directory
relocations required by build roots.  This is not defined in the
makefile but the argument can be passed to make if needed.

INSTALL_MOD_STRIP
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INSTALL_MOD_STRIP, if defined, will cause modules to be
stripped after they are installed.  If INSTALL_MOD_STRIP is '1', then
the default option --strip-debug will be used.  Otherwise,
INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will used as the options to the strip command.

INSTALL_FW_PATH
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INSTALL_FW_PATH specifies where to install the firmware blobs.
The default value is:

    $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware

The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.

INSTALL_HDR_PATH
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INSTALL_HDR_PATH specifies where to install user space headers when
executing "make headers_*".
The default value is:

    $(objtree)/usr

$(objtree) is the directory where output files are saved.
The output directory is often set using "O=..." on the commandline.

The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.

KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN
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KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid errors in case of undefined
symbols in the final module linking stage. It changes such errors
into warnings.

KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL
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KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL can be set to skip the final link of modules.
This is solely useful to speed up test compiles.

KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
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For modules that use symbols from other modules.
See more details in modules.txt.

ALLSOURCE_ARCHS
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For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one arch
to be included in the databases, separated by blank space. E.g.:

    $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS="x86 mips arm" tags