Re: [PATCH] selftests/resctrl: fix clang build failure: use LOCAL_HDRS

From: Reinette Chatre
Date: Fri May 03 2024 - 14:40:14 EST




On 5/2/2024 7:17 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
> 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
>
> Fix this by using selftests/lib.mk facilities for tracking local header
> file dependencies: add them to LOCAL_HDRS, leaving only the .c files to
> be passed to the compiler.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240329-selftests-libmk-llvm-rfc-v1-1-2f9ed7d1c49f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Fixes: 8e289f454289 ("selftests/resctrl: Add resctrl.h into build deps")
> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thank you.

Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>

Reinette