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Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 16:31:39 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>
Cc:     ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, yhs@...com,
        davem@...emloft.net, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, hawk@...nel.org,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/8] samples: bpf: Makefile: remove target for
 native build

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:22:06AM +0300, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote:
> No need to set --target for native build, at least for arm, the
> default target will be used anyway. In case of arm, for at least
> clang 5 - 10 it causes error like:
> 
> clang: warning: unknown platform, assuming -mfloat-abi=soft
> LLVM ERROR: Unsupported calling convention
> make[2]: *** [/home/root/snapshot/samples/bpf/Makefile:299:
> /home/root/snapshot/samples/bpf/sockex1_kern.o] Error 1
> 
> Only set to real triple helps: --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf
> or just drop the target key to use default one. Decision to just
> drop it and thus default target will be used (wich is native),
> looks better.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>
> ---
>  samples/bpf/Makefile | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile
> index 61b7394b811e..a2953357927e 100644
> --- a/samples/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -197,8 +197,6 @@ BTF_PAHOLE ?= pahole
>  ifdef CROSS_COMPILE
>  HOSTCC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
>  CLANG_ARCH_ARGS = --target=$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%))
> -else
> -CLANG_ARCH_ARGS = -target $(ARCH)
>  endif

I don't follow here.
Didn't you introduce this bug in patch 1 and now fixing it in patch 2?