selftests/powerpc: Fix try-run when source tree is not writable
We added a usage of try-run to pmu/ebb/Makefile to detect if the toolchain supported the -no-pie option. This fails if we build out-of-tree and the source tree is not writable, as try-run tries to write its temporary files to the current directory. That leads to the -no-pie option being silently dropped, which leads to broken executables with some toolchains. If we remove the redirect to /dev/null in try-run, we see the error: make[3]: Entering directory '/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb' /usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file .54.tmp: Read-only file system collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'. And looking with strace we see it's trying to use a file that's in the source tree: lstat("/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/.54.tmp", 0x7ffffc0f83c8) We can fix it by setting TMPOUT to point to the $(OUTPUT) directory, and we can verify with strace it's now trying to write to the output directory: lstat("/output/kselftest/powerpc/pmu/ebb/.54.tmp", 0x7fffd1bf6bf8) And also see that the -no-pie option is now correctly detected. Fixes: 0695f8bc ("selftests/powerpc: Handle Makefile for unrecognized option") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+ Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200327095319.2347641-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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