First of all, in order to build with clang at all, one must first apply
Valentin Obst's build fix for LLVM [1]. Once that is done, then when
building with clang, via:
make LLVM=1 -C tools/testing/selftests
...clang warns that -no-pie is "unused during compilation".
This occurs because clang only wants to see -no-pie during linking.
Here, we don't have a separate linking stage, so a compiler warning is
unavoidable without (wastefully) restructuring the Makefile.
Avoid the warning by simply disabling that warning, for clang builds.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240329-selftests-libmk-llvm-rfc-v1-1-2f9ed7d1c49f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile
index d0bb32bd5538..5c8757a25998 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ CFLAGS := -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -pthread -Wall $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
# call32_from_64 in thunks.S uses absolute addresses.
ifeq ($(CAN_BUILD_WITH_NOPIE),1)
CFLAGS += -no-pie
+
+ifneq ($(LLVM),)
+# clang only wants to see -no-pie during linking. Here, we don't have a separate
+# linking stage, so a compiler warning is unavoidable without (wastefully)
+# restructuring the Makefile. Avoid this by simply disabling that warning.
+CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-command-line-argument
+endif
endif
define gen-target-rule-32
--
2.45.0
