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Message-ID: <c68e9299e755b38c38d63d8cb121800639f5e07a.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:42:02 +0100
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>, "David S. Miller"
<davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
<kuba@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>, Dmitry
Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/net/tcp-ao: Use LDLIBS instead of LDFLAGS
On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 21:34 +0000, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> The rules to link selftests are:
>
> > $(OUTPUT)/%_ipv4: %.c
> > $(LINK.c) $^ $(LDLIBS) -o $@
> >
> > $(OUTPUT)/%_ipv6: %.c
> > $(LINK.c) -DIPV6_TEST $^ $(LDLIBS) -o $@
>
> The intel test robot uses only selftest's Makefile, not the top linux
> Makefile:
>
> > make W=1 O=/tmp/kselftest -C tools/testing/selftests
>
> So, $(LINK.c) is determined by environment, rather than by kernel
> Makefiles. On my machine (as well as other people that ran tcp-ao
> selftests) GNU/Make implicit definition does use $(LDFLAGS):
>
> > [dima@...dolluin ~]$ make -p -f/dev/null | grep '^LINK.c\>'
> > make: *** No targets. Stop.
> > LINK.c = $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH)
>
> But, according to build robot report, it's not the case for them.
> While I could just avoid using pre-defined $(LINK.c), it's also used by
> selftests/lib.mk by default.
>
> Anyways, according to GNU/Make documentation [1], I should have used
> $(LDLIBS) instead of $(LDFLAGS) in the first place, so let's just do it:
>
> > LDFLAGS
> > Extra flags to give to compilers when they are supposed to invoke
> > the linker, ‘ld’, such as -L. Libraries (-lfoo) should be added
> > to the LDLIBS variable instead.
> > LDLIBS
> > Library flags or names given to compilers when they are supposed
> > to invoke the linker, ‘ld’. LOADLIBES is a deprecated (but still
> > supported) alternative to LDLIBS. Non-library linker flags, such
> > as -L, should go in the LDFLAGS variable.
>
> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-Variables.html
>
> Fixes: cfbab37b3da0 ("selftests/net: Add TCP-AO library")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202401011151.veyYTJzq-lkp@intel.com/
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
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