Re: [PATCH net 1/3] selftests: net: remove dependency on ebpf tests

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 20:10 -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > Several net tests requires an XDP program build under the ebpf
> > directory, and error out if such program is not available.
> > 
> > That makes running successful net test hard, let's duplicate into the
> > net dir the [very small] program, re-using the existing rules to build
> > it, and finally dropping the bogus dependency.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile          |  5 +++--
> >  tools/testing/selftests/net/udpgro.sh         |  4 ++--
> >  tools/testing/selftests/net/udpgro_bench.sh   |  4 ++--
> >  tools/testing/selftests/net/udpgro_frglist.sh |  6 +++---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/net/udpgro_fwd.sh     |  2 +-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/net/veth.sh           |  4 ++--
> >  tools/testing/selftests/net/xdp_dummy.c       | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  7 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/xdp_dummy.c
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
> > index 50818075e566..304d8b852ef0 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
> > @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ TEST_PROGS += sctp_vrf.sh
> >  TEST_GEN_FILES += sctp_hello
> >  TEST_GEN_FILES += csum
> >  TEST_GEN_FILES += nat6to4.o
> > +TEST_GEN_FILES += xdp_dummy.o
> >  TEST_GEN_FILES += ip_local_port_range
> >  TEST_GEN_FILES += bind_wildcard
> >  TEST_PROGS += test_vxlan_mdb.sh
> > @@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ $(OUTPUT)/tcp_inq: LDLIBS += -lpthread
> >  $(OUTPUT)/bind_bhash: LDLIBS += -lpthread
> >  $(OUTPUT)/io_uring_zerocopy_tx: CFLAGS += -I../../../include/
> >  
> > -# Rules to generate bpf obj nat6to4.o
> > +# Rules to generate bpf objs
> >  CLANG ?= clang
> >  SCRATCH_DIR := $(OUTPUT)/tools
> >  BUILD_DIR := $(SCRATCH_DIR)/build
> > @@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ endif
> >  
> >  CLANG_SYS_INCLUDES = $(call get_sys_includes,$(CLANG),$(CLANG_TARGET_ARCH))
> >  
> > -$(OUTPUT)/nat6to4.o: nat6to4.c $(BPFOBJ) | $(MAKE_DIRS)
> > +$(OUTPUT)/nat6to4.o $(OUTPUT)/xdp_dummy.o: $(OUTPUT)/%.o : %.c $(BPFOBJ) | $(MAKE_DIRS)
> >  	$(CLANG) -O2 --target=bpf -c $< $(CCINCLUDE) $(CLANG_SYS_INCLUDES) -o $@
> 
> is the "$(OUTPUT)/%.o :" intentional or a leftover from editing?

Is intentional and AFAICS required to let this rule being selected when
the output directory is not an empty string (the target and the pre-req
will be in different directories).

Cheers,

Paolo