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Date:   Thu, 4 Feb 2021 17:24:44 -0800
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 3/4] tools/resolve_btfids: Set srctree variable unconditionally

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:21 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> We want this clean to be called from tree's root Makefile,
> which defines same srctree variable and that will screw
> the make setup.
>
> We actually do not use srctree being passed from outside,
> so we can solve this by setting current srctree value
> directly.
>
> Also root Makefile does not define the implicit RM variable,
> so adding RM initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
> ---
>  tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
> index 3007cfabf5e6..b41fc9a81e83 100644
> --- a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
> @@ -2,11 +2,9 @@
>  include ../../scripts/Makefile.include
>  include ../../scripts/Makefile.arch
>
> -ifeq ($(srctree),)
>  srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(CURDIR)))
>  srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(srctree)))
>  srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(srctree)))

Is this just a weird way of doing $(abspath $(CURDIR)/../../../)? Are
there any advantages compared to a more straightforward way?

> -endif
>
>  ifeq ($(V),1)
>    Q =
> @@ -22,6 +20,7 @@ AR       = $(HOSTAR)
>  CC       = $(HOSTCC)
>  LD       = $(HOSTLD)
>  ARCH     = $(HOSTARCH)
> +RM      ?= rm
>
>  OUTPUT ?= $(srctree)/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>