Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests/openat2: fix clang build failures: -static-libasan, LOCAL_HDRS

Ryan Roberts
2024-05-07T16:56:42Z

On 07/05/2024 17:47, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 5/7/24 9:34 AM, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> On 07/05/2024 17:19, John Hubbard wrote:
>>> On 5/7/24 12:45 AM, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>>> On 04/05/2024 05:43, John Hubbard wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> I sent out a similar fix a couple of weeks ago, see [1]. I don't think it got
>>>> picked up though. It takes a slightly different approach, explicitly adding
>>>> -static-libsan (note no 'a') for clang, instead of relying on its default.
>>>>
>>>> And it just drops helpers.h from the makefile altogether, on the assumption
>>>> that
>>>> it was a mistake; its just a header and shouldn't be compiled directly. I'm not
>>>> exactly sure what the benefit of adding it to LOCAL_HDRS is?
>>>
>>> Ah no, you must not drop headers.h. That's a mistake itself, because
>>> LOCAL_HDRS adds a Make dependency; that's its purpose. If you touch
>>> helpers.h it should cause a rebuild, which won't happen if you remove it
>>> from LOCAL_HDRS.
>>
>> Ahh. I was under the impression that the compiler was configured to output the
>> list of dependencies for make to track (something like -M, from memory ?). Since
>> helpers.h is included from helpers.c I assumed it would be tracked like this - I
>> guess its not that simple?
>
> This can be done, but it is not automatic with GNU Make. You have to explicitly
> run gcc -M, capture the output in a dependencies list, and track it. Which the
> Kbuild system does, but kselftest does not.

Understood - thanks for the lesson!

>
> After just now sweeping through kselftest to fix up the clang build, I see a
> lot of mistaken or partial use of the kselftest build's Make variables, because
> people naturally reason based on what they know about Kbuild, and it doesn't
> always translate. And LOCAL_HDRS might need some more documentation too.
> I'll keep thinking about how to clarify this, I have a couple early ideas.
>
>>
>> Anyway, on the basis that LOCAL_HDRS is the right way to do this, let's go with
>> your version and drop mine:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
>>
>
> Thanks for the review!
>
> thanks,