[PATCH] kbuild: Fail the build early when no lz4 present

Borislav Petkov
2018-10-10T22:23:43Z

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

When building randconfigs, the build fails at kernel compression stage
due to missing lz4 on the system but CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 has been selected
by randconfig. The result looks somethins like this:

(cat arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs | lz4c -l -c1 stdin stdout && printf \334\141\301\001) > arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lz4 || (rm -f arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lz4 ; false)
/bin/sh: 1: lz4c: not found
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:143: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lz4] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/Makefile:112: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make: *** [arch/x86/Makefile:290: bzImage] Error 2

Fail the build much earlier by checking for lz4c presence before doing
anything else.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
---
Makefile | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a0c32de80482..f91de649234b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -788,6 +788,12 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections
endif

+ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_SHELL which lz4c),)
+$(error "lz4 tool not found on this system but CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 enabled")
+endif
+endif
+
# arch Makefile may override CC so keep this after arch Makefile is included
NOSTDINC_FLAGS += -nostdinc -isystem $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include)

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