The following errors are showing up when compiling rtla with clang: $ make HOSTCC=clang CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 [...] clang -O -g -DVERSION=\"6.8.0-rc1\" -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Wno-maybe-uninitialized $(pkg-config --cflags libtracefs) -c -o src/utils.o src/utils.c clang: warning: optimization flag '-ffat-lto-objects' is not supported [-Wignored-optimization-argument] warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-maybe-uninitialized'; did you mean '-Wno-uninitialized'? [-Wunknown-warning-option] 1 warning generated. clang -o rtla -ggdb src/osnoise.o src/osnoise_hist.o src/osnoise_top.o src/rtla.o src/timerlat_aa.o src/timerlat.o src/timerlat_hist.o src/timerlat_top.o src/timerlat_u.o src/trace.o src/utils.o $(pkg-config --libs libtracefs) src/osnoise.o: file not recognized: file format not recognized clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) make: *** [Makefile:110: rtla] Error 1 Solve these issues by: - removing -ffat-lto-objects and -Wno-maybe-uninitialized if using clang - informing the linker about -flto=auto Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 1a7b22ab15eb ("tools/rtla: Build with EXTRA_{C,LD}FLAGS") Suggested-by: Donald Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile index 2456a399eb9a..afd18c678ff5 100644 --- a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile +++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile @@ -28,10 +28,15 @@ FOPTS := -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong \ -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection WOPTS := -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Wno-maybe-uninitialized +ifeq ($(CC),clang) + FOPTS := $(filter-out -ffat-lto-objects, $(FOPTS)) + WOPTS := $(filter-out -Wno-maybe-uninitialized, $(WOPTS)) +endif + TRACEFS_HEADERS := $$($(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags libtracefs) CFLAGS := -O -g -DVERSION=\"$(VERSION)\" $(FOPTS) $(MOPTS) $(WOPTS) $(TRACEFS_HEADERS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -LDFLAGS := -ggdb $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) +LDFLAGS := -flto=auto -ggdb $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) LIBS := $$($(PKG_CONFIG) --libs libtracefs) SRC := $(wildcard src/*.c) -- 2.43.0