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Message-ID: <e78c3b86-78ab-2b2e-d8be-e9118d7d2392@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:31:55 -0700
From: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Andrew Delgadillo <adelg@...gle.com>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
<linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: propagate CC to selftest submakes
On 12/10/20 5:10 PM, Andrew Delgadillo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:10 PM Andrew Delgadillo <adelg@...gle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> lib.mk defaults to gcc when CC is not set. When building selftests
>>> as part of a kernel compilation, MAKEFLAGS is cleared to allow implicit
>>> build rules to be used. This has the side-effect of clearing the CC
>>> variable, which will cause selftests to be built with gcc regardless of
>>> if we are using gcc or clang. To remedy this, propagate the CC variable
>>> when clearing makeflags to ensure the correct compiler is used.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Delgadillo <adelg@...gle.com>
>>
>> Hi Andrew, thanks for the patch. Can you walk me through how to build
>> the selftests?
>>
>> Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst says:
>> $ make -C tools/testing/selftests
>>
>> And if I do:
>> $ make CC=clang defconfig
>> $ make CC=clang -C tools/testing/selftests -j
>>
>> I observe a spew of errors. If I apply your patch and rerun the
>> above, I see what looks like the same spew of errors. Am I "holding
>> it wrong" or could the docs use a refresh?
>>
>
> Hi Nick, sure thing!
>
> I also see a slew of errors when building with make -C
> tools/testing/selftests. However, that is not the problem I am trying
> to solve. I believe we are seeing errors building that way because it
> is missing some make variables that are normally set up when building
> from the kernel's top level makefile.
>
Both options are supported and should work.
make -C tools/testing/selftests
make kselftest
That being said, I use gcc. Can you send the errors you are seeing?
It is possible, a few tests aren't building and need to be fixed
for clang and gcc.
thanks,
-- Shuah
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