Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next v5 1/8] selftests/bpf: keep headers off the generic link command line

On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 10:01 -0700, Mykola Lysenko wrote:
> The generic '$(OUTPUT)/%:%.c' rule links with '$(LINK.c) $^', so
> every prerequisite of such a binary lands on the compiler driver's
> command line. That only works while none of them is a header: gcc
> tolerates a stray .h argument on a link line, but clang treats it as
> a request to precompile the header and fails with "cannot specify -o
> when generating multiple output files".
> 
> Filter headers out of the recipe, with a comment: header
> prerequisites on these targets are useful for dependency tracking -
> the next patch declares one - and the constraint is easy to
> rediscover the hard way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mykola Lysenko <[email protected]>
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Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <[email protected]>

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