2025-03-26 01:40 UTC+0100 ~ Tomas Glozar <[email protected]>
> The feature test for system bpftool uses BPFTOOL as the variable to set
> its path, defaulting to just "bpftool" if not set by the user.
> 
> This conflicts with selftests and a few other utilities, which expect
> BPFTOOL to be set to the in-tree bpftool path by default. For example,
> bpftool selftests fail to build:
> 
> $ make -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
> make: Entering directory '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf'
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target 'bpftool', needed by 
> '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/include/vmlinux.h'.
>   Stop.
> make: Leaving directory '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf'
> 
> Fix the problem by renaming the variable used for system bpftool from
> BPFTOOL to SYSTEM_BPFTOOL, so that the new usage does not conflict with
> the existing one of BPFTOOL.
> 
> Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <[email protected]>
> Closes: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/[email protected]/
> Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>


Let's use <[email protected]> if possible, please.


> Fixes: 8a635c3856dd ("tools/build: Add bpftool-skeletons feature test")
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <[email protected]>

Looks good, thanks a lot!

Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>

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