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SubjectRe: [PATCH] libbpf: Fix up generation of bpf_helper_defs.h
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> writes:

> Em Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 05:38:18PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen escreveu:
>> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Em Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:10:45PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>> >> Hi guys,
>> >>
>> >> While merging perf/core with mainline I found the problem below for
>> >> which I'm adding this patch to my perf/core branch, that soon will go
>> >> Ingo's way, etc. Please let me know if you think this should be handled
>> >> some other way,
>> >
>> > This is still not enough, fails building in a container where all we
>> > have is the tarball contents, will try to fix later.
>>
>> Wouldn't the right thing to do not be to just run the script, and then
>> put the generated bpf_helper_defs.h into the tarball?
>
> I would rather continue just running tar and have the build process
> in-tree or outside be the same.

Hmm, right. Well that Python script basically just parses
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h; and it can be given the path of that file with
the --filename argument. So as long as that file is present, it should
be possible to make it work, I guess?

However, isn't the point of the tarball to make a "stand-alone" source
distribution? I'd argue that it makes more sense to just include the
generated header, then: The point of the Python script is specifically
to extract the latest version of the helper definitions from the kernel
source tree. And if you're "freezing" a version into a tarball, doesn't
it make more sense to also freeze the list of BPF helpers?

-Toke

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