Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/8] samples: bpf: Makefile: remove target for native build

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Fri Sep 06 2019 - 19:31:45 EST


On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:22:06AM +0300, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote:
> No need to set --target for native build, at least for arm, the
> default target will be used anyway. In case of arm, for at least
> clang 5 - 10 it causes error like:
>
> clang: warning: unknown platform, assuming -mfloat-abi=soft
> LLVM ERROR: Unsupported calling convention
> make[2]: *** [/home/root/snapshot/samples/bpf/Makefile:299:
> /home/root/snapshot/samples/bpf/sockex1_kern.o] Error 1
>
> Only set to real triple helps: --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf
> or just drop the target key to use default one. Decision to just
> drop it and thus default target will be used (wich is native),
> looks better.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> samples/bpf/Makefile | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile
> index 61b7394b811e..a2953357927e 100644
> --- a/samples/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -197,8 +197,6 @@ BTF_PAHOLE ?= pahole
> ifdef CROSS_COMPILE
> HOSTCC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
> CLANG_ARCH_ARGS = --target=$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%))
> -else
> -CLANG_ARCH_ARGS = -target $(ARCH)
> endif

I don't follow here.
Didn't you introduce this bug in patch 1 and now fixing it in patch 2?