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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:24:48 +0530
From:	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	bblanco@...mgrid.com, borkmann@...earbox.net,
	alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V3 2/5] samples/bpf: Makefile verify LLVM
 compiler avail and bpf target is supported

On 2016/04/27 09:30AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Make compiling samples/bpf more user friendly, by detecting if LLVM
> compiler tool 'llc' is available, and also detect if the 'bpf' target
> is available in this version of LLVM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> ---
>  samples/bpf/Makefile |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

> 
> diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile
> index 5bae9536f100..45859c99f573 100644
> --- a/samples/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -85,6 +85,24 @@ HOSTLOADLIBES_test_overhead += -lelf -lrt
>  #  make samples/bpf/ LLC=~/git/llvm/build/bin/llc
>  LLC ?= llc
> 
> +# Verify LLVM compiler is available and bpf target is supported
> +.PHONY: verify_cmd_llc verify_target_bpf
> +
> +verify_cmd_llc:
> +	@if ! (which "${LLC}" > /dev/null 2>&1); then \
> +		echo "*** ERROR: Cannot find LLVM tool 'llc' (${LLC})" ;\
> +		exit 1; \
> +	else true; fi
> +
> +verify_target_bpf: verify_cmd_llc
> +	@if ! (${LLC} -march=bpf -mattr=help > /dev/null 2>&1); then \
> +		echo "*** ERROR: LLVM (${LLC}) does not support 'bpf' target" ;\
> +		echo "   NOTICE: LLVM version >= 3.7.1 required" ;\
> +		exit 2; \
> +	else true; fi
> +
> +$(src)/*.c: verify_target_bpf
> +
>  # asm/sysreg.h - inline assembly used by it is incompatible with llvm.
>  # But, there is no easy way to fix it, so just exclude it since it is
>  # useless for BPF samples.
>