[PATCH] selftests/binderfs: use the Makefile's rules, not Make's implicit rules

From: John Hubbard
Date: Thu May 02 2024 - 21:58:36 EST


First of all, in order to build with clang at all, one must first apply
Valentin Obst's build fix for LLVM [1]. Once that is done, then when
building with clang, via:

make LLVM=1 -C tools/testing/selftests

..the following error occurs:

clang: error: cannot specify -o when generating multiple output files

This is because clang, unlike gcc, won't accept invocations of this
form:

clang file1.c header2.h

While trying to fix this, I noticed that:

a) selftests/lib.mk already avoids the problem, and

b) The binderfs Makefile indavertently bypasses the selftests/lib.mk
build system, and quitely uses Make's implicit build rules for .c files
instead.

The Makefile attempts to set up both a dependency and a source file,
neither of which was needed, because lib.mk is able to automatically
handle both. This line:

binderfs_test: binderfs_test.c

..causes Make's implicit rules to run, which builds binderfs_test
without ever looking at lib.mk.

Fix this by simply deleting the "binderfs_test:" Makefile target and
letting lib.mk handle it instead.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240329-selftests-libmk-llvm-rfc-v1-1-2f9ed7d1c49f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Fixes: 6e29225af902 ("binderfs: port tests to test harness infrastructure")
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/binderfs/Makefile | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/binderfs/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/binderfs/Makefile
index c2f7cef919c0..eb4c3b411934 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/binderfs/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/binderfs/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,4 @@
CFLAGS += $(KHDR_INCLUDES) -pthread
TEST_GEN_PROGS := binderfs_test

-binderfs_test: binderfs_test.c ../../kselftest.h ../../kselftest_harness.h
-
include ../../lib.mk

base-commit: f03359bca01bf4372cf2c118cd9a987a5951b1c8
prerequisite-patch-id: b901ece2a5b78503e2fb5480f20e304d36a0ea27
--
2.45.0