linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/3] tools build: Incorrect fixdep dependencies

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Message-ID: <20240709204203.1481851-1-briannorris@chromium.org>
Date: Tue,  9 Jul 2024 13:41:50 -0700
From: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] tools build: Incorrect fixdep dependencies

Hi all,

The following series consists of a few bugfixes on the topic of "misuse
of fixdep in the tools/ build tree." There is no listed maintainer for
tools/build, but there are for tools/bpf and tools/objtool, which are
the main pieces that affect most users, because they're built as part of
the main kernel build. I've addressed this series to a selection of
those maintainers, and those that have previously applied build changes
in tools/. I hope one of you can apply this series, pending favorable
review. Or feel free to point me to a different set of maintainers.

This patch series came out of poking around some build errors seen by me
and my coworkers, and I found that there were rather similar reports a
while back here:

    Subject: possible dependency error?
    https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZGVi9HbI43R5trN8@bhelgaas/

I reported some findings to that thread; see also subsequent discussion:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zk-C5Eg84yt6_nml@google.com/

One element of that discussion: these problems are already solved
consistently in Kbuild. tools/build purposely borrows some from Kbuild,
but also purposely does not actually use Kbuild. While it'd make my life
easier if tools/ would just adopt Kbuild (at least for the tools which
are built during kernel builds), I've chosen a path that I hope will
yield less resistance -- simply hacking up the existing tools/ build
without major changes to its design.

NB: I've also CC'd Kbuild folks, since Masahiro has already been so
helpful here, but note that this is not really a "kbuild" patch series.

Regards,
Brian

Changes in v3:
 - Drop unnecessary tools/build/Build

Changes in v2:
 - also fix libbpf shared library rules
 - ensure OUTPUT is always set, and always an absolute path
 - add backup $(Q) definition in tools/build/Makefile.include

Brian Norris (3):
  tools build: Correct libsubcmd fixdep dependencies
  tools build: Avoid circular .fixdep-in.o.cmd issues
  tools build: Correct bpf fixdep dependencies

 tools/build/Build            |  3 ---
 tools/build/Makefile         | 11 ++---------
 tools/build/Makefile.include | 12 +++++++++++-
 tools/lib/bpf/Makefile       | 14 ++++++++++++--
 tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile    |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 tools/build/Build

-- 
2.45.2.803.g4e1b14247a-goog