On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 16:27, Song Liu <s...@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:58 AM Quentin Monnet <quen...@isovalent.com> wrote: > > > > On 17/09/2020 12:58, Tony Ambardar wrote: > > > This change facilitates out-of-tree builds, packaging, and versioning for > > > test and debug purposes. Defining BPFTOOL_VERSION allows self-contained > > > builds within the tools tree, since it avoids use of the 'kernelversion' > > > target in the top-level makefile, which would otherwise pull in several > > > other includes from outside the tools tree. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <tony.ambar...@gmail.com> > > > > Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quen...@isovalent.com> > > Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubrav...@fb.com>
I should clarify for those performing stand-alone builds that a few items are still required from outside the tools/ tree: kernel/bpf/disasm.[ch] and scripts/bpf_helpers_doc.py. Not sure that's worth updating the commit description however.
