On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 11:17:46AM +0100, Björn Töpel wrote:
> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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")
> Reviewed-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
jirka
> ---
> v2: Proper tree tag "bpf".
> Collected *-by tags.
>
> Andrii,
>
> Apologies for missing out the tree tag in the patch. Here's a respin,
> and thanks for routing it via the BPF tree.
>
>
> Björn
>
> ---
> 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: 3448ad23b34e43a2526bd0f9e1221e8de876adec
> --
> 2.45.2
>
>
