Re: [PATCH] tools: Override makefile ARCH variable if defined, but empty

[Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 08:32:06PM +0100, Björn Töpel wrote:
> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
> 
> There are a number of tools (bpftool, selftests), that require a
> "bootstrap" build. Here, a bootstrap build is a build host variant of
> a target. E.g., assume that you're performing a bpftool cross-build on
> x86 to riscv, a bootstrap build would then be an x86 variant of
> bpftool. The typical way to perform the host build variant, is to pass
> "ARCH=" in a sub-make. However, if a variable has been set with a
> command argument, then ordinary assignments in the makefile are
> ignored.
> 
> This side-effect results in that ARCH, and variables depending on ARCH
> are not set.
> 
> Workaround by overriding ARCH to the host arch, if ARCH is empty.
> 
> Fixes: 8859b0da5aac ("tools/bpftool: Fix cross-build")
> Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>

Reviewed-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>

> ---
>  tools/scripts/Makefile.arch | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.arch b/tools/scripts/Makefile.arch
> index f6a50f06dfc4..eabfe9f411d9 100644
> --- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.arch
> +++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.arch
> @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ HOSTARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \
>                                    -e s/sh[234].*/sh/ -e s/aarch64.*/arm64/ \
>                                    -e s/riscv.*/riscv/ -e s/loongarch.*/loongarch/)
>  
> -ifndef ARCH
> -ARCH := $(HOSTARCH)
> +ifeq ($(strip $(ARCH)),)
> +override ARCH := $(HOSTARCH)
>  endif
>  
>  SRCARCH := $(ARCH)
> 
> base-commit: 7758b206117dab9894f0bcb8333f8e4731c5065a
> -- 
> 2.45.2
>