linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Don't pass -rR to selftest makefiles

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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:36:07 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Cc:	mmarek@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davej@...emonkey.org.uk, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Don't pass -rR to selftest makefiles

On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 16:49 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 03/09/2015 08:28 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 03/04/2015 03:19 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >> The makefiles under tools/testing/selftests are not real kbuild
> >> makefiles, they are regular stand alone makefiles. As such they *do*
> >> want all the standard implicit rules and variables defined.
> >>
> >> So before calling those makefiles, filter -rR out of MAKEFLAGS.
> >>
> >> Without this not all the selftests are built correctly when called via
> >> the top-level Makefile.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> > 
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > Could you please take this patch in your tree.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
> > 
> 
> I am changing this to a Nack. This is not fully cooked.
> I am seeing new failures on some tests.
> 
> gcc: error: elf_x86_64: No such file or directory
> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-m’

I can't reproduce that here. In what way do you think it's related to this
patch?

cheers



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