[PATCH bpf-next v2 0/4] tools: bpftool: improve bpftool build experience

[Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>]

Hi,
This set attempts to make it easier to build bpftool, in particular when
passing a specific output directory. This is a follow-up to the
conversation held last month by Lorenz, Ilya and Jakub [0].

The first patch is a minor fix to bpftool's Makefile, regarding the
retrieval of kernel version (which currently prints a non-relevant make
warning on some invocations).

Second patch improves the Makefile commands to support more "make"
invocations, or to fix building with custom output directory. On Jakub's
suggestion, a script is also added to BPF selftests in order to keep track
of the supported build variants.

Building bpftool with "make tools/bpf" from the top of the repository
generates files in "libbpf/" and "feature/" directories under tools/bpf/
and tools/bpf/bpftool/. The third patch ensures such directories are taken
care of on "make clean", and add them to the relevant .gitignore files.

At last, fourth patch is a sligthly modified version of Ilya's fix
regarding libbpf.a appearing twice on the linking command for bpftool.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CACAyw9-CWRHVH3TJ=Tke2x8YiLsH47sLCijdp=V+5M836R9aAA@mail.gmail.com/

v2:
- Return error from check script if one of the make invocations returns
  non-zero (even if binary is successfully produced).
- Run "make clean" from bpf/ and not only bpf/bpftool/ in that same script,
  when relevant.
- Add a patch to clean up generated "feature/" and "libbpf/" directories.

Cc: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>

Quentin Monnet (4):
  tools: bpftool: ignore make built-in rules for getting kernel version
  tools: bpftool: improve and check builds for different make
    invocations
  tools: bpf: account for generated feature/ and libbpf/ directories
  tools: bpftool: do not link twice against libbpf.a in Makefile

 tools/bpf/.gitignore                          |   1 +
 tools/bpf/Makefile                            |   5 +-
 tools/bpf/bpftool/.gitignore                  |   2 +
 tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile                    |  28 ++--
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile          |   3 +-
 .../selftests/bpf/test_bpftool_build.sh       | 143 ++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_bpftool_build.sh

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