From: Herton R. Krzesinski on
gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1721#note_8952...
CKI Gitlab commented:
DJ Delorie <dj(a)redhat.com> commented via email:
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Prarit Bhargava <prarit(a)redhat.com> writes:
>> So this papers over the real problem. I looked at the Makefile and wonder
why
>> CFLAGS wasn't being passed over even with
"override" being used to append
the
>> flags. Seems the real problem is that the updated CFLAGS
aren't being
passed
>> to the submake used to build the tool. I did this here and
it seems to
have
>> fixed the problem:
There's a HUGE difference between "CFLAGS=x make" and "make
CFLAGS=x",
or setting CFLAGS inside a Makefile. That make treats environment
variables as makefile variables doesn't mean they're equal.
Make variables are NOT passed to child processes if they originate in
the Makefile, but environment variables are, and sometimes make
variables start off as environment variables, which can make it seem
otherwise:
When 'make' runs a recipe, variables defined in the makefile are
placed into the environment of each shell. This allows you to pass
values to sub-'make' invocations (*note Recursive Use of 'make':
Recursion.). By default, only variables that came from the
environment or the command line are passed to recursive invocations.
You can use the 'export' directive to pass other variables. *Note
Communicating Variables to a Sub-'make': Variables/Recursion, for full
details.
Ok so this is what I did here:
$ git diff
diff --git a/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/Makefile
b/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/Makefile
index d2fba1297d96..577216629f91 100644
--- a/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/Makefile
+++ b/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/Makefile
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ prepare: $(OUTPUT)include/linux/isst_if.h
$(OUTPUT)include/linux/thermal.h
ISST_IN := $(OUTPUT)intel-speed-select-in.o
$(ISST_IN): prepare FORCE
+ env
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=intel-speed-select
$(OUTPUT)intel-speed-select: $(ISST_IN)
$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $< -o $@
Then doing:
$ CFLAGS="-Os" make V=1
...
MAKEFLAGS=r -- V=1
...
CFLAGS=-Os -O2 -Wall -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -Iinclude -I/usr/include/libnl3
...
make -f /home/herton/repo-git/ark/kernel-ark/tools/build/Makefile.build dir=.
obj=intel-speed-select
make[1]: Entrando no diretório '/home/herton/repo-git/ark/kernel-
ark/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select'
gcc -Wp,-MD,./.isst-config.o.d -Wp,-MT,isst-config.o -Os -O2 -Wall -g
-D_GNU_SOURCE -Iinclude -I/usr/include/libnl3 -D"BUILD_STR(s)=#s" -c -o isst-
config.o isst-config.c
...
$ make V=1 CFLAGS="-Os"
...
MAKEFLAGS=r -- CFLAGS=-Os V=1
...
CFLAGS=-Os -O2 -Wall -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -Iinclude -I/usr/include/libnl3
...
make -f /home/herton/repo-git/ark/kernel-ark/tools/build/Makefile.build dir=.
obj=intel-speed-select
make[1]: Entrando no diretório '/home/herton/repo-git/ark/kernel-
ark/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select'
gcc -Wp,-MD,./.isst-config.o.d -Wp,-MT,isst-config.o -Os -D"BUILD_STR(s)=#s"
-c -o isst-config.o isst-config.c
...
So yes as you say there is a difference in supplying CFLAGS as Makefile
variable
or environment variable. In the case of supplied as variable it's overriding
CFLAGS in the submake.
I will add that, noted during testing, using the "FLAG+=something" form
on the command line does NOT trigger the "from the command line" rule if
the FLAG otherwise didn't trigger it itself. This might be the specific
case here.
Using += doesn't change behaviour, same behaviour (bash should interpret env
assignment and later option make right, same result). So I don't think it's
related to += usage.
So I don't think this is papering over the real problem, I think this is
the right solution (or use export), for when you don't collect such
variables in a .included file.
The paper over I mention is the solution used on the kernel.spec, which is
using the override option but that will break if upstream updates Makefile
and adds more stuff to CFLAGS needed to build. But I think we want to use the
environment variable form in the spec so it works (thanks for pointing the
difference). So instead of current patch:
%{make} CFLAGS+="-D_GNU_SOURCE -Iinclude -I/usr/include/libnl3"
LDFLAGS+="-lnl-genl-3 -lnl-3"
We probably want to make it:
CFLAGS="%{?build_hostcflags}" LDFLAGS="%{?build_hostldflags}" %{make}
And probably we should audit other tool builds as well to see if we are not
bumping into same problem.