linux/tools/bpf
Shahab Vahedi 0b817059a8 bpftool: Fix bootstrapping during a cross compilation
This change adjusts the Makefile to use "HOSTAR" as the archive tool
to keep the sanity of the build process for the bootstrap part in
check. For the rationale, please continue reading.

When cross compiling bpftool with buildroot, it leads to an invocation
like:

$ AR="/path/to/buildroot/host/bin/arc-linux-gcc-ar" \
  CC="/path/to/buildroot/host/bin/arc-linux-gcc"    \
  ...
  make

Which in return fails while building the bootstrap section:

----------------------------------8<----------------------------------

  make: Entering directory '/src/bpftool-v6.7.0/src'
  ...                        libbfd: [ on  ]
  ...        disassembler-four-args: [ on  ]
  ...                          zlib: [ on  ]
  ...                        libcap: [ OFF ]
  ...               clang-bpf-co-re: [ on  ] <-- triggers bootstrap

  .
  .
  .

    LINK     /src/bpftool-v6.7.0/src/bootstrap/bpftool
  /usr/bin/ld: /src/bpftool-v6.7.0/src/bootstrap/libbpf/libbpf.a:
               error adding symbols: archive has no index; run ranlib
               to add one
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make: *** [Makefile:211: /src/bpftool-v6.7.0/src/bootstrap/bpftool]
            Error 1
  make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    AR       /src/bpftool-v6.7.0/src/libbpf/libbpf.a
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/src/bpftool-v6.7.0/libbpf/src'
    make: Leaving directory '/src/bpftool-v6.7.0/src'

---------------------------------->8----------------------------------

This occurs because setting "AR" confuses the build process for the
bootstrap section and it calls "arc-linux-gcc-ar" to create and index
"libbpf.a" instead of the host "ar".

Signed-off-by: Shahab Vahedi <shahab@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/8d297f0c-cfd0-ef6f-3970-6dddb3d9a87a@synopsys.com
2022-06-09 14:01:21 +02:00
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bpftool bpftool: Fix bootstrapping during a cross compilation 2022-06-09 14:01:21 +02:00
resolve_btfids Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2022-02-03 17:36:16 -08:00
runqslower tools/runqslower: Use libbpf 1.0 API mode instead of RLIMIT_MEMLOCK 2022-04-10 20:17:16 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
bpf_asm.c docs: networking: convert filter.txt to ReST 2020-04-28 14:39:46 -07:00
bpf_dbg.c bpf: Simplify the calculation of variables 2021-03-04 19:24:53 -08:00
bpf_exp.l bpf: fix cbpf parser bug for octal numbers 2018-06-03 07:46:55 -07:00
bpf_exp.y tools, bpf_asm: Exit non-zero on errors 2021-02-26 22:53:50 +01:00
bpf_jit_disasm.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 232 2019-06-19 17:09:06 +02:00
Makefile tools: bpf: Fix error in 'make -C tools/ bpf_install' 2021-07-07 14:06:38 -07:00