4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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posix_timers fails to build due to undefined reference errors:
aarch64-linaro-linux-gcc --sysroot=/build/tmp-rpb-glibc/sysroots/hikey -O2 -pipe -g -feliminate-unused-debug-types -O3 -Wl,-no-as-needed -Wall -DKTEST -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed -lrt -lpthread posix_timers.c -o /build/tmp-rpb-glibc/work/hikey-linaro-linux/kselftests/4.12-r0/linux-4.12-rc7/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers /tmp/cc1FTZzT.o: In function `check_timer_create': /usr/src/debug/kselftests/4.12-r0/linux-4.12-rc7/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c:157: undefined reference to `timer_create' /usr/src/debug/kselftests/4.12-r0/linux-4.12-rc7/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c:170: undefined reference to `timer_settime' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
It's GNU Make and linker specific.
The default Makefile rule looks like:
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $@ $^ $(LDLIBS)
When linking is done by gcc itself, no issue, but when it needs to be passed to proper ld, only LDLIBS follows and then ld cannot know what libs to link with.
More detail: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-Variables.html
LDFLAGS Extra flags to give to compilers when they are supposed to invoke the linker, ‘ld’, such as -L. Libraries (-lfoo) should be added to the LDLIBS variable instead.
LDLIBS Library flags or names given to compilers when they are supposed to invoke the linker, ‘ld’. LOADLIBES is a deprecated (but still supported) alternative to LDLIBS. Non-library linker flags, such as -L, should go in the LDFLAGS variable.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/10/362
tools/perf: libraries must come after objects
Link order matters, use LDLIBS instead of LDFLAGS to properly link against libpthread.
Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko denys@ti.com Signed-off-by: Fathi Boudra fathi.boudra@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile index c02683cfb6c9..7656c7ce79d9 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 CFLAGS += -O3 -Wl,-no-as-needed -Wall -LDFLAGS += -lrt -lpthread -lm +LDLIBS += -lrt -lpthread -lm
# these are all "safe" tests that don't modify # system time or require escalated privileges