On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 12:16:37AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
As per a discussion with Muhammad Usama Anjum [1], the following is how one is supposed to build selftests:
make headers && make -C tools/testing/selftests/mmChange the selftest build system's lib.mk to fail out with a helpful message if that prerequisite "make headers" has not been done yet.
NAK NAK NAK
This now means I can no longer run selftests, I thank you very much! :-/
root@spr:/usr/src/linux-2.6# make O=defconfig-build/ -j64 make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build' *** *** The source tree is not clean, please run 'make mrproper' *** in /usr/src/linux-2.6
I've always done:
cd tools/testing/selftests/x86; make
and that has always worked
Now I can't bloody well build *any* selftest or risk not being able to do builds.