[PATCH bpf-next 2/3] bpftool: do not FORCE-build libbpf
From: Quentin Monnet <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-09 21:03:56
Also in:
bpf
Subsystem:
bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), bpf [tooling] (bpftool), the rest · Maintainers:
Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Quentin Monnet, Linus Torvalds
In bpftool's Makefile, libbpf has a FORCE dependency, to make sure we
rebuild it in case its source files changed. Let's instead make the
rebuild depend on the source files directly, through a call to the
"$(wildcard ...)" function. This avoids descending into libbpf's
directory if there is nothing to update.
Do the same for the bootstrap libbpf version.
This results in a slightly faster operation and less verbose output when
running make a second time in bpftool's directory.
Before:
Auto-detecting system features:
... libbfd: [ on ]
... disassembler-four-args: [ on ]
... zlib: [ on ]
... libcap: [ on ]
... clang-bpf-co-re: [ on ]
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/dev/linux/tools/lib/bpf'
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/dev/linux/tools/lib/bpf'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'install_headers'.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/dev/linux/tools/lib/bpf'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/dev/linux/tools/lib/bpf'
After:
Auto-detecting system features:
... libbfd: [ on ]
... disassembler-four-args: [ on ]
... zlib: [ on ]
... libcap: [ on ]
... clang-bpf-co-re: [ on ]
Other ways to clean up the output could be to pass the "-s" option, or
to redirect the output to >/dev/null, when calling make recursively to
descend into libbpf's directory. However, this would suppress some
useful output if something goes wrong during the build. A better
alternative would be to pass "--no-print-directory" to the recursive
make, but that would still leave us with some noise for
"install_headers". Skipping the descent into libbpf's directory if no
source file has changed works best, and seems the most logical option
overall.
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <redacted>
---
tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
index 2c510293f32b..4acec74f459b 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ endif $(LIBBPF_OUTPUT) $(BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT) $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT): $(QUIET_MKDIR)mkdir -p $@ -$(LIBBPF): FORCE | $(LIBBPF_OUTPUT) +$(LIBBPF): $(wildcard $(BPF_DIR)/*.[ch] $(BPF_DIR)/Makefile) | $(LIBBPF_OUTPUT) $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(BPF_DIR) OUTPUT=$(LIBBPF_OUTPUT) \ DESTDIR=$(LIBBPF_DESTDIR) prefix= $(LIBBPF) install_headers
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ $(LIBBPF_INTERNAL_HDRS): $(LIBBPF_HDRS_DIR)/%.h: $(BPF_DIR)/%.h $(LIBBPF) $(call QUIET_INSTALL, $@) $(Q)install -m 644 -t $(LIBBPF_HDRS_DIR) $< -$(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP): FORCE | $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT) +$(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP): $(wildcard $(BPF_DIR)/*.[ch] $(BPF_DIR)/Makefile) | $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT) $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(BPF_DIR) OUTPUT=$(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT) \ ARCH= CC=$(HOSTCC) LD=$(HOSTLD) $@
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