Re: [PATCH] bpftool, selftests/hid/bpf: fix 29 clang warnings

[Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>]

On 05/05/2024 22:56, John Hubbard wrote:
> When building either tools/bpf/bpftool, or tools/testing/selftests/hid,
> (the same Makefile is used for these), clang generates many instances of
> a warning that is useless here:
> 
>     "clang: warning: -lLLVM-17: 'linker' input unused"
> 
> Silence this in both locations, by disabling that warning when building
> with clang.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> index e9154ace80ff..c7457921d136 100644
> --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> @@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ CFLAGS += -DUSE_LIBCAP
>  LIBS += -lcap
>  endif
>  
> +ifneq ($(LLVM),)
> +    CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-command-line-argument
> +endif
Thanks! If possible, I'd rather keep the warning enabled, and fix the
command line instead. Looking at the error and the Makefile, we may not 
need the -lLLVM<version> in the CFLAGS at all, but only in $(LIBS). On
my setup, I can build successfully, without the warnings, with the
following patch:

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diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
index b67454b45a49..dfa4f1bebbb3 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ ifeq ($(feature-llvm),1)
   # If LLVM is available, use it for JIT disassembly
   CFLAGS  += -DHAVE_LLVM_SUPPORT
   LLVM_CONFIG_LIB_COMPONENTS := mcdisassembler all-targets
-  CFLAGS  += $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --cflags --libs $(LLVM_CONFIG_LIB_COMPONENTS))
+  CFLAGS  += $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --cflags)
   LIBS    += $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --libs $(LLVM_CONFIG_LIB_COMPONENTS))
   ifeq ($(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --shared-mode),static)
     LIBS += $(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --system-libs $(LLVM_CONFIG_LIB_COMPONENTS))
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Could you please check whether that works on your side, too?

Quentin