Commit 96f30c8f authored by Brian Norris's avatar Brian Norris Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build: Correct libsubcmd fixdep dependencies

All built targets need fixdep to be built first, before handling object
dependencies [1]. We're missing one such dependency before the libsubcmd
target.

This resolves .cmd file generation issues such that the following
sequence produces many fewer results:

  $ git clean -xfd tools/
  $ make tools/objtool
  $ grep "cannot find fixdep" $(find tools/objtool -name '*.cmd')

In particular, only a buggy tools/objtool/libsubcmd/.fixdep.o.cmd
remains, due to circular dependencies of fixdep on itself.

Such incomplete .cmd files don't usually cause a direct problem, since
they're designed to fail "open", but they can cause some subtle problems
that would otherwise be handled by proper fixdep'd dependency files. [2]

[1] This problem is better described in commit abb26210 ("perf
tools: Force fixdep compilation at the start of the build"). I don't
apply its solution here, because additional recursive make can be a bit
of overkill.

[2] Example failure case:

  cp -arl linux-src linux-src2
  cd linux-src2
  make O=/path/to/out
  cd ../linux-src
  rm -rf ../linux-src2
  make O=/path/to/out

Previously, we'd see errors like:

  make[6]: *** No rule to make target
  '/path/to/linux-src2/tools/include/linux/compiler.h', needed by
  '/path/to/out/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/libsubcmd/exec-cmd.o'.  Stop.

Now, the properly-fixdep'd .cmd files will ignore a missing
/path/to/linux-src2/...
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZGVi9HbI43R5trN8@bhelgaas/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zk-C5Eg84yt6_nml@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240715203325.3832977-2-briannorris@chromium.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 13159a13
......@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.include
all: fixdep $(LIBFILE)
$(SUBCMD_IN): FORCE
$(SUBCMD_IN): fixdep FORCE
@$(MAKE) $(build)=libsubcmd
$(LIBFILE): $(SUBCMD_IN)
......
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