Paul Brook writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CPPFLAGS+= in Makefile.target"): > On Friday 25 January 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > > What circumstances ? CPPFLAGS+= overrides (discards) values in the > > environment as well as ones from the command line. > > [ demonstration ]
Oh, err, looks like I messed up in my own test. I see what you mean. We don't want the top-level's CPPFLAGS turning up there. Still, there ought to be a way to introduce extra compiler options that doesn't involve duplicating the ones which are essential to find qemu's own includes etc. Ian.