6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org
[ Upstream commit ee916dccd4df6e2fd19c3606c4735282b72f1473 ]
This pattern isn't very documented, and apparently not used much outside of 'make tools/help', but it has existed for over a decade (since commit ea01fa9f63ae: "tools: Connect to the kernel build system").
However, it doesn't work very well for most cases, particularly the useful "tools/all" target, because it overrides the LDFLAGS value with an empty one.
And once overridden, 'make' will then not honor the tooling makefiles trying to change it - which then makes any LDFLAGS use in the tooling directory break, typically causing odd link errors.
Remove that LDFLAGS override, since it seems to be entirely historical. The core kernel makefiles no longer modify LDFLAGS as part of the build, and use kernel-specific link flags instead (eg 'KBUILD_LDFLAGS' and friends).
This allows more of the 'make tools/*' cases to work. I say 'more', because some of the tooling build rules make various other assumptions or have other issues, so it's still a bit hit-or-miss. But those issues tend to show up with the 'make -C tools xyz' pattern too, so now it's no longer an issue of this particular 'tools/*' build rule being special.
Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Cc: Nicolas Schier nicolas@fjasle.eu Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index d4c679b2d4bcf..0aa9fd3ab9a1c 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1372,11 +1372,11 @@ endif
tools/: FORCE $(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools - $(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= O=$(abspath $(objtree)) subdir=tools -C $(srctree)/tools/ + $(Q)$(MAKE) O=$(abspath $(objtree)) subdir=tools -C $(srctree)/tools/
tools/%: FORCE $(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools - $(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= O=$(abspath $(objtree)) subdir=tools -C $(srctree)/tools/ $* + $(Q)$(MAKE) O=$(abspath $(objtree)) subdir=tools -C $(srctree)/tools/ $*
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