linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf] tools/resolve_btfids: build with host flags

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:18:07 -0800
From:   Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
To:     "Connor O'Brien" <connoro@...gle.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] tools/resolve_btfids: build with host flags

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 4:25 PM Connor O'Brien <connoro@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> resolve_btfids is built using $(HOSTCC) and $(HOSTLD) but does not
> pick up the corresponding flags. As a result, host-specific settings
> (such as a sysroot specified via HOSTCFLAGS=--sysroot=..., or a linker
> specified via HOSTLDFLAGS=-fuse-ld=...) will not be respected.
>
> Fix this by setting CFLAGS to KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS and LDFLAGS to
> KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS.
>
> Also pass the cflags through to libbpf via EXTRA_CFLAGS to ensure that
> the host libbpf is built with flags consistent with resolve_btfids.
>
> Signed-off-by: Connor O'Brien <connoro@...gle.com>

I guess this should go to bpf-next tree?

Other than that,

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>