selftests: net: use LDLIBS instead of LDFLAGS
authorFathi Boudra <fathi.boudra@linaro.org>
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:43:18 +0000 (11:43 -0600)
committerShuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:02:12 +0000 (08:02 -0700)
commit870f193d48c25a97d61a8e6c04e3c29a2c606850
tree9bde8f7974a4f6b01de0debfa1df136a22b39263
parented5f13261cb65b02c611ae9971677f33581d4286
selftests: net: use LDLIBS instead of LDFLAGS

reuseport_bpf_numa fails to build due to undefined reference errors:

 aarch64-linaro-linux-gcc
 --sysroot=/build/tmp-rpb-glibc/sysroots/hikey -Wall
 -Wl,--no-as-needed -O2 -g -I../../../../usr/include/  -Wl,-O1
 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed -lnuma  reuseport_bpf_numa.c
 -o
 /build/tmp-rpb-glibc/work/hikey-linaro-linux/kselftests/4.12-r0/linux-4.12-rc7/tools/testing/selftests/net/reuseport_bpf_numa
 /tmp/ccfUuExT.o: In function `send_from_node':
 /build/tmp-rpb-glibc/work/hikey-linaro-linux/kselftests/4.12-r0/linux-4.12-rc7/tools/testing/selftests/net/reuseport_bpf_numa.c:138:
 undefined reference to `numa_run_on_node'
 /tmp/ccfUuExT.o: In function `main':
 /build/tmp-rpb-glibc/work/hikey-linaro-linux/kselftests/4.12-r0/linux-4.12-rc7/tools/testing/selftests/net/reuseport_bpf_numa.c:230:
 undefined reference to `numa_available'
 /build/tmp-rpb-glibc/work/hikey-linaro-linux/kselftests/4.12-r0/linux-4.12-rc7/tools/testing/selftests/net/reuseport_bpf_numa.c:233:
 undefined reference to `numa_max_node'

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
libnuma.

Signed-off-by: Fathi Boudra <fathi.boudra@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile