Re: [PATCH 1/1 fyi] perf python: Fix splitting CC into compiler and options

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

On December 22, 2022 2:45:57 PM GMT-03:00, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 6:34 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
><acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Just fyi, I'm carrying this in the perf tools tree.
>>
>> - Arnaldo
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Noticed this build failure on archlinux:base when building with clang:
>>
>>   clang-14: error: optimization flag '-ffat-lto-objects' is not supported [-Werror,-Wignored-optimization-argument]
>>
>> In tools/perf/util/setup.py we check if clang supports that option, but
>> since commit 3cad53a6f9cdbafa ("perf python: Account for multiple words
>> in CC") this got broken as in the common case where CC="clang":
>>
>>   >>> cc="clang"
>>   >>> print(cc.split()[0])
>>   clang
>>   >>> option="-ffat-lto-objects"
>>   >>> print(str(cc.split()[1:]) + option)
>>   []-ffat-lto-objects
>>   >>>
>>
>> And then the Popen will call clang with that bogus option name that in
>> turn will not produce the b"unknown argument" or b"is not supported"
>> that this function uses to detect if the option is not available and
>> thus later on clang will be called with an unknown/unsupported option.
>>
>> Fix it by looking if really there are options in the provided CC
>> variable, and if so override 'cc' with the first token and append the
>> options to the 'option' variable.
>>
>> Fixes: 3cad53a6f9cdbafa ("perf python: Account for multiple words in CC")
>> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Khem Raj <raj.khem@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  tools/perf/util/setup.py | 13 +++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/setup.py b/tools/perf/util/setup.py
>> index 4f265d0222c454e2..c294db713677c0c2 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/setup.py
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/setup.py
>> @@ -3,11 +3,20 @@ from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
>>  from re import sub
>>
>>  cc = getenv("CC")
>> -cc_is_clang = b"clang version" in Popen([cc.split()[0], "-v"], stderr=PIPE).stderr.readline()
>> +
>> +# Check if CC has options, as is the case in yocto, where it uses CC="cc --sysroot..."
>> +cc_tokens = cc.split()
>> +if len(cc_tokens) > 1:
>> +    cc = cc_tokens[0]
>
>What if someone is using `CC="cache clang"`? Then cc is set to `cache`
>and the cc_is_clang check below will fail.

Agreed, but this is a preexisting bug, let's fix this with a follow-up patch,

- Arnaldo 


>
>> +    cc_options = " ".join([str(e) for e in cc_tokens[1:]]) + " "
>> +else:
>> +    cc_options = ""
>
>> +cc_is_clang = b"clang version" in Popen([cc, "-v"], stderr=PIPE).stderr.readline()
>>  src_feature_tests  = getenv('srctree') + '/tools/build/feature'
>>
>>  def clang_has_option(option):
>> -    cc_output = Popen([cc.split()[0], str(cc.split()[1:]) + option, path.join(src_feature_tests, "test-hello.c") ], stderr=PIPE).stderr.readlines()
>> +    cc_output = Popen([cc, cc_options + option, path.join(src_feature_tests, "test-hello.c") ], stderr=PIPE).stderr.readlines()
>>      return [o for o in cc_output if ((b"unknown argument" in o) or (b"is not supported" in o))] == [ ]
>>
>>  if cc_is_clang:
>> --
>> 2.38.1
>>
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