[Buildroot] [git commit] package/Makefile.in should grab HOST_DIR headers using -isystem instead of -I.

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 25 21:46:19 UTC 2016


commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=6f8162cf8c1abef7e0a4771fe0d6b26a28f5c2b6
branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

HOST_CFLAGS includes a search path for HOST_DIR/usr/include using -I.
When HOST_CFLAGS is used by a package, these flags are passed to the
compiler ahead of flags passed by the package's internal make system.
If a package has a header file with the same name as a header file in
HOST_DIR, this causes the toolchain to prefer the file from the system
include directory because its -I appears first on the command
line. Conflicts should prefer the file provided by the package.  This
can be accomplished by using -isystem, which is more appropriate then
-I for system-level include paths.

Real-world example: libfdt might be installed in HOST_DIR to install a
patched version of QEMU that does not bundle libfdt. Meanwhile, the
u-boot package provides its own copy of libfdt.h that is modified from
upstream.  If libfdt is also installed into HOST_DIR, then
host-uboot-tools fails to build because it grabs the libfdt.h from the
HOST_DIR area instead of using the patched version from its own source
tree. This patch corrects this issue.

This assumes the -isystem flag is supported by the host compiler,
which is the case since gcc 3.0 at least.

Signed-off-by: David Raeman <draeman at bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 package/Makefile.in | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/Makefile.in b/package/Makefile.in
index afd5d3a..b0ef706 100644
--- a/package/Makefile.in
+++ b/package/Makefile.in
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ UNZIP := $(shell which unzip || type -p unzip) -q
 
 APPLY_PATCHES = support/scripts/apply-patches.sh $(if $(QUIET),-s)
 
-HOST_CPPFLAGS  = -I$(HOST_DIR)/usr/include
+HOST_CPPFLAGS  = -isystem $(HOST_DIR)/usr/include
 HOST_CFLAGS   ?= -O2
 HOST_CFLAGS   += $(HOST_CPPFLAGS)
 HOST_CXXFLAGS += $(HOST_CFLAGS)


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