samples/bpf/Makefile passes LDFLAGS=$(TPROGS_LDFLAGS) to libbpf build without surrounding quotes, which may cause compilation errors when passing custom TPROGS_USER_LDFLAGS. For example: $ make -C samples/bpf/ TPROGS_USER_LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -specs=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/13/libsanitizer.spec" make: Entering directory './samples/bpf' make -C ../../ M=./samples/bpf BPF_SAMPLES_PATH=./samples/bpf make[1]: Entering directory '.' make -C ./samples/bpf/../../tools/lib/bpf RM='rm -rf' EXTRA_CFLAGS="-Wall -O2 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -I./usr/include -I./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ -I./samples/bpf/libbpf/include -I./tools/include -I./tools/perf -I./tools/lib -DHAVE_ATTR_TEST=0" \ LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed -specs=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/13/libsanitizer.spec srctree=./samples/bpf/../../ \ O= OUTPUT=./samples/bpf/libbpf/ DESTDIR=./samples/bpf/libbpf prefix= \ ./samples/bpf/libbpf/libbpf.a install_headers make: invalid option -- 'c' make: invalid option -- '=' make: invalid option -- '/' make: invalid option -- 'u' make: invalid option -- '/' [...] Fix the error by properly quoting $(TPROGS_LDFLAGS). Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Donald Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> --- samples/bpf/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile index 5a9805edec93..378b9f3e9321 100644 --- a/samples/bpf/Makefile +++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ clean: $(LIBBPF): $(wildcard $(LIBBPF_SRC)/*.[ch] $(LIBBPF_SRC)/Makefile) | $(LIBBPF_OUTPUT) # Fix up variables inherited from Kbuild that tools/ build system won't like $(MAKE) -C $(LIBBPF_SRC) RM='rm -rf' EXTRA_CFLAGS="$(TPROGS_CFLAGS)" \ - LDFLAGS=$(TPROGS_LDFLAGS) srctree=$(BPF_SAMPLES_PATH)/../../ \ + LDFLAGS="$(TPROGS_LDFLAGS)" srctree=$(BPF_SAMPLES_PATH)/../../ \ O= OUTPUT=$(LIBBPF_OUTPUT)/ DESTDIR=$(LIBBPF_DESTDIR) prefix= \ $@ install_headers -- 2.41.0