The patch titled Subject: tools/mm: allow users to provide additional cflags/ldflags has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is tools-vm-allow-users-to-provide-additional-cflags-ldflags.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/tools-vm-allow-users-to-provide-additional-cflags-ldflags.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Herton R. Krzesinski" <herton@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: tools/mm: allow users to provide additional cflags/ldflags Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:49:21 -0300 Right now there is no way to provide additional cflags/ldflags when building tools/vm binaries. And using eg. make CFLAGS=<options> will override the CFLAGS being set in the Makefile, making the build fail since it requires the include of the ../lib dir (for libapi). This change then allows you to specify: CFLAGS=<options> LDFLAGS=<options> make V=1 -C tools/vm And the options will be correctly appended as can be seen from the make output. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230116224921.4106324-1-herton@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Justin Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Scott Weaver <scweaver@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/mm/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/mm/Makefile~tools-vm-allow-users-to-provide-additional-cflags-ldflags +++ a/tools/mm/Makefile @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ TARGETS=page-types slabinfo page_owner_s LIB_DIR = ../lib/api LIBS = $(LIB_DIR)/libapi.a -CFLAGS = -Wall -Wextra -I../lib/ -LDFLAGS = $(LIBS) +CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra -I../lib/ +LDFLAGS += $(LIBS) all: $(TARGETS) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from herton@xxxxxxxxxx are tools-vm-allow-users-to-provide-additional-cflags-ldflags.patch