tools build: Display logical OR of a feature flavors
authorRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:09:57 +0000 (14:09 +0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 4 Oct 2022 11:55:19 +0000 (08:55 -0300)
commit74ef1cc9587870016f2a528c03634607b9d53093
treec020f47550d1a12444b61063861a0f52e6583c96
parent74da7697a2ab988e3889ba4db78992a0944ea83d
tools build: Display logical OR of a feature flavors

Sometimes, features are simply different flavors of another feature, to
properly detect the exact dependencies needed by different Linux
distributions.

For example, libbfd has three flavors: libbfd if the distro does not
require any additional dependency; libbfd-liberty if it requires libiberty;
libbfd-liberty-z if it requires libiberty and libz.

It might not be clear to the user whether a feature has been successfully
detected or not, given that some of its flavors will be set to OFF, others
to ON.

Instead, display only the feature main flavor if not in verbose mode
(VF != 1), and set it to ON if at least one of its flavors has been
successfully detected (logical OR), OFF otherwise. Omit the other flavors.

Accomplish that by declaring a FEATURE_GROUP_MEMBERS-<feature main flavor>
variable, with the list of the other flavors as variable value. For now, do
it just for libbfd.

In verbose mode, of if no group is defined for a feature, show the feature
detection result as before.

Committer testing:

Collecting the output from:

  $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/ clean
  $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/ |& grep "Auto-detecting system features" -A10

  $ diff -u before after
  --- before 2022-08-18 10:06:40.422086966 -0300
  +++ after 2022-08-18 10:07:59.202138282 -0300
  @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
   Auto-detecting system features:
   ...                                  libbfd: [ on  ]
  -...                          libbfd-liberty: [ on  ]
  -...                        libbfd-liberty-z: [ on  ]
   ...                                  libcap: [ on  ]
   ...                         clang-bpf-co-re: [ on  ]
  $

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220818120957.319995-3-roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/build/Makefile.feature