[PATCH 6.18 091/752] bpftool: Fix dependencies for static build

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:49:25Z

From: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>

[ Upstream commit 08a7491843224f8b96518fbe70d9e48163046054 ]

When building selftests/bpf with EXTRA_LDFLAGS=-static the follwoing
error happens:

LINK /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/bootstrap/bpftool
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-dso_dlfcn.o): in function `dlfcn_globallookup':
[...]
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-c_zlib.o): in function `zlib_oneshot_expand_block':
(.text+0xc64): undefined reference to `uncompress'
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-c_zlib.o): in function `zlib_oneshot_compress_block':
(.text+0xce4): undefined reference to `compress'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:252: /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/bootstrap/bpftool] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:327: /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/sbin/bpftool] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This is caused by wrong order of dependencies in the Makefile. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260128211255.376933-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
index 586d1b2595d16..fd43e5ea63f38 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ include $(FEATURES_DUMP)
endif
endif

-LIBS = $(LIBBPF) -lelf -lz -lcrypto
-LIBS_BOOTSTRAP = $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP) -lelf -lz -lcrypto
+LIBS = $(LIBBPF) -lelf -lcrypto -lz
+LIBS_BOOTSTRAP = $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP) -lelf -lcrypto -lz

ifeq ($(feature-libelf-zstd),1)
LIBS += -lzstd
--
2.51.0