Re: [PATCH] tools: bpf: Use !building_out_of_srctree to determine srctree

[Song Liu]

> On Sep 27, 2019, at 12:03 PM, Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 9/27/19 12:44 PM, Song Liu wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:14 PM Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> make TARGETS=bpf kselftest fails with:
>>> 
>>> Makefile:127: tools/build/Makefile.include: No such file or directory
>>> 
>>> When the bpf tool make is invoked from tools Makefile, srctree is
>>> cleared and the current logic check for srctree equals to empty
>>> string to determine srctree location from CURDIR.
>>> 
>>> When the build in invoked from selftests/bpf Makefile, the srctree
>>> is set to "." and the same logic used for srctree equals to empty is
>>> needed to determine srctree.
>>> 
>>> Check building_out_of_srctree undefined as the condition for both
>>> cases to fix "make TARGETS=bpf kselftest" build failure.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> The fix looks reasonable. Thanks!
>> However, I am still seeing some failure:
>> make TARGETS=bpf kselftest
>> [...]
>> test_verifier.c
>> /data/users/songliubraving/kernel/linux-git/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_stub.o
>> /data/users/songliubraving/kernel/linux-git/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/libbpf.a
>> -lcap -lelf -lrt -lpthread -o
>> /data/users/songliubraving/kernel/linux-git/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier
>> make[3]: test_verifier.c: Command not found
>> Is this just a problem with my setup?
> 
> You are running into the second bpf failure because of the dependency
> on the latest llvm. This is known issue with bpf test and it doesn't
> compile on 5.4 and maybe even 5.3
> 

Thanks for the clarification. 

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>