Re: [PATCH] selftests: sync: missing CFLAGS while compiling

[Shuah Khan]

On 01/05/2018 09:33 AM, Anders Roxell wrote:
> Based on patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10042045/
> 
> arch64-linux-gnu-gcc -c sync.c -o sync/sync.o
> sync.c:42:29: fatal error: linux/sync_file.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <linux/sync_file.h>
>                              ^
> CFLAGS is not used during the compile step, so the system instead of
> kernel headers are used.  Fix this by using lib.mk's compile rules and
> remove CFLAGS from the linking step.

Hmm. The changes don't match the change log. It odes more than just
removing LDFLAGS from compile step,

> 
> Reported-by: Lei Yang <Lei.Yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile | 8 +-------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile
> index b3c8ba3cb668..58b9336d6c84 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile
> @@ -27,12 +27,6 @@ OBJS := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(OBJS))
>  TESTS := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TESTS))
>  
>  $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS): $(TESTS) $(OBJS)
> -	$(CC) -o $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS) $(OBJS) $(TESTS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)

So why not just delete $(LDFLAGS)??
$(CC) -o $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS) $(OBJS) $(TESTS) $(CFLAGS)

> -
> -$(OBJS): $(OUTPUT)/%.o: %.c
> -	$(CC) -c $^ -o $@
> -
> -$(TESTS): $(OUTPUT)/%.o: %.c
> -	$(CC) -c $^ -o $@
> +	$(CC) -o $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS) $(OBJS) $(TESTS) $(LDFLAGS)
>  
>  EXTRA_CLEAN := $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS) $(OBJS) $(TESTS)
> 
 
I can't take this patch the way it is. It breaks the following
use-case:

make O=/tmp/kselftest TARGETS=sync kselftest

thanks,
-- Shuah