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kbuild: remove libelf checks from top Makefile

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I do not see a good reason why only the libelf development package must
be so carefully checked.

Kbuild generally does not check host tools or libraries.

For example, x86_64 defconfig fails to build with no libssl development
package installed.

scripts/extract-cert.c:21:10: fatal error: openssl/bio.h: No such file or directory
   21 | #include <openssl/bio.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To solve the build error, you need to install libssl-dev or openssl-devel
package, depending on your distribution.

'apt-file search', 'dnf provides', etc. is your frined to find a proper
package to install.

This commit removes all the libelf checks from the top Makefile.

If libelf is missing, objtool will fail to build in a similar pattern:

.../linux/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h:10:10: fatal error: gelf.h: No such file or directory
   10 | #include <gelf.h>

You need to install libelf-dev, libelf-devel, or elfutils-libelf-devel
to proceed.

Another remarkable change is, CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION (without
CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC) previously continued to build with a warning,
but now it will treat missing libelf as an error.

This is just a one-time installation, so it should not hurt to break
a build and make a user install the package.

BTW, the traditional way to handle such checks is autotool, but according
to [1], I do not expect the kernel build would have similar scripting
like './configure' does.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFzr2HTZVOuzpHYDwmtRJLsVzE-yqg2DHpHi_9ePsYp5ug@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Masahiro Yamada 2021-05-12 15:52:01 +09:00
parent 1bb0b18a06
commit 0d989ac2c9
3 changed files with 22 additions and 60 deletions
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@ -39,12 +39,10 @@ prelink-ext := .lto
# so let's now process the prelinked binary before we link the module.
ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
ifneq ($(SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION),1)
cmd_ld_ko_o += \
$(objtree)/tools/objtool/objtool $(objtool_args) \
$(@:.ko=$(prelink-ext).o);
endif # SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION
endif # CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
endif # CONFIG_LTO_CLANG