Remove a build-time check for the presence of the GCC `-msym32' option.  
This option has been there since GCC 4.1.0, which is below the minimum 
required as at commit 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler 
only when compiler is needed"), when an error message:

arch/mips/Makefile:306: *** CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS unsupported without -msym32.  Stop.

started to trigger for the `modules_install' target with configurations 
such as `decstation_64_defconfig' that set CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS, 
because said commit has made `cc-option-yn' an undefined function for 
non-build targets.

Reported-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Fixes: 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler only when compiler is needed")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13+
---
 arch/mips/Makefile |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

linux-mips-msym32-uncond.diff
Index: linux-macro/arch/mips/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-macro.orig/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ linux-macro/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -299,8 +299,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
     endif
   endif
 
-  ifeq ($(KBUILD_SYM32)$(call cc-option-yn,-msym32), yy)
-    cflags-y += -msym32 -DKBUILD_64BIT_SYM32
+  ifeq ($(KBUILD_SYM32), y)
+    cflags-$(KBUILD_SYM32) += -msym32 -DKBUILD_64BIT_SYM32
   else
     ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS), y)
       $(error CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS unsupported without -msym32)

On 18/7/23 16:37, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Remove a build-time check for the presence of the GCC `-msym32' option.
> This option has been there since GCC 4.1.0, which is below the minimum
> required as at commit 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler
> only when compiler is needed"), when an error message:
> 
> arch/mips/Makefile:306: *** CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS unsupported without -msym32.  Stop.
> 
> started to trigger for the `modules_install' target with configurations
> such as `decstation_64_defconfig' that set CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS,
> because said commit has made `cc-option-yn' an undefined function for
> non-build targets.
> 
> Reported-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
> Fixes: 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler only when compiler is needed")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13+
> ---
>   arch/mips/Makefile |    4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>