[PATCH] kbuild: fix false positive warning/error about missing libelf

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Dec 18 2018 - 00:27:01 EST


For the same reason as commit 25896d073d8a ("x86/build: Fix compiler
support check for CONFIG_RETPOLINE"), you cannot put this $(error ...)
into the parse stage of the top Makefile.

Perhaps I'd propose a more sophisticated solution later, but this is
the best I can do for now.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/25/211
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Makefile | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 56d5270..d45856f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -962,11 +962,6 @@ ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
ifeq ($(has_libelf),1)
objtool_target := tools/objtool FORCE
else
- ifdef CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
- $(error "Cannot generate ORC metadata for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel")
- else
- $(warning "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel")
- endif
SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION := 1
export SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION
endif
@@ -1125,6 +1120,14 @@ uapi-asm-generic:

PHONY += prepare-objtool
prepare-objtool: $(objtool_target)
+ifeq ($(SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION),1)
+ifdef CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
+ @echo "error: Cannot generate ORC metadata for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel" >&2
+ @false
+else
+ @echo "warning: Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel" >&2
+endif
+endif

# Generate some files
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
2.7.4