[Buildroot] [PATCH] Reset critical environment variables

Daniel Nyström daniel.nystrom at timeterminal.se
Sat Dec 25 23:29:42 UTC 2010


Reset them early in top-level Makefile to ensure they're keept unset
all the way through the build process.

This also removes the requirement of these variables being unset
globally prior the build.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Nyström <daniel.nystrom at timeterminal.se>
---
 Makefile                               |    6 ++++++
 toolchain/dependencies/dependencies.sh |    9 ---------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f6ab07e..1974e1c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ cc-option=$(shell if $(TARGET_CC) $(TARGET_CFLAGS) $(1) -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev
 #############################################################
 unexport CROSS_COMPILE
 unexport ARCH
+unexport CC
+unexport CXX
+unexport CPP
+unexport CFLAGS
+unexport CXXFLAGS
+unexport GREP_OPTIONS
 
 GNU_HOST_NAME:=$(shell package/gnuconfig/config.guess)
 
diff --git a/toolchain/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/toolchain/dependencies/dependencies.sh
index a152d4b..766a478 100755
--- a/toolchain/dependencies/dependencies.sh
+++ b/toolchain/dependencies/dependencies.sh
@@ -4,15 +4,6 @@
 
 export LC_ALL=C
 
-# Verify that critical environment variables aren't set
-for var in CC CXX CPP CFLAGS CXXFLAGS GREP_OPTIONS CROSS_COMPILE ARCH ; do
-    if test -n "$(eval echo '$'$var)" ; then
-	/bin/echo -e "\nYou must run 'unset $var' so buildroot can run with";
-	/bin/echo -e "a clean environment on your build machine\n";
-	exit 1;
-    fi
-done
-
 # Verify that grep works
 echo "WORKS" | grep "WORKS" >/dev/null 2>&1
 if test $? != 0 ; then
-- 
1.7.1




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