Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] bpf: makefiles: do not generate empty vmlinux.h

[Andrii Nakryiko]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 5:42 AM Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Remove the empty vmlinux.h if bpftool failed to dump btf info.
> The emptry vmlinux.h can hide real error when reading output

typo: empty

> of make.
>
> This is done by adding .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target in related
> makefiles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile           | 3 +++
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf             | 2 ++
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 3 +++
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> index 4a95c017ad4c..f6b1e65085db 100644
> --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> @@ -265,3 +265,6 @@ FORCE:
>  .PHONY: all FORCE bootstrap clean install-bin install uninstall
>  .PHONY: doc doc-clean doc-install doc-uninstall
>  .DEFAULT_GOAL := all
> +
> +# Delete partially updated (corrupted) files on error
> +.DELETE_ON_ERROR:
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
> index a432e59afc42..265254fc641a 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
> +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
> @@ -1149,3 +1149,5 @@ FORCE:
>  .PHONY: libtraceevent_plugins archheaders
>
>  endif # force_fixdep
> +
> +.DELETE_ON_ERROR:

please split out perf changes, they should go through perf tree

> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> index e6cf21fad69f..f41c4b011221 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -617,3 +617,6 @@ EXTRA_CLEAN := $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS) $(SCRATCH_DIR) $(HOST_SCRATCH_DIR)      \
>                                liburandom_read.so)
>
>  .PHONY: docs docs-clean
> +
> +# Delete partially updated (corrupted) files on error
> +.DELETE_ON_ERROR:
> --
> 2.37.2
>