When using a cross-compilation environment, such as OpenEmbedded, the CC an CXX variables are set to something more than just a command: there are arguments (such as --sysroot) that need to be passed on to the compiler so that the right set of headers and libraries are used. For the particular case that our systems detected, CC is set to the following: export CC="aarch64-linaro-linux-gcc --sysroot=/oe/build/tmp/work/machine/perf/1.0-r9/recipe-sysroot" Without quotes, detection is as follows: Auto-detecting system features: ... dwarf: [ OFF ] ... dwarf_getlocations: [ OFF ] ... glibc: [ OFF ] ... gtk2: [ OFF ] ... libbfd: [ OFF ] ... libcap: [ OFF ] ... libelf: [ OFF ] ... libnuma: [ OFF ] ... numa_num_possible_cpus: [ OFF ] ... libperl: [ OFF ] ... libpython: [ OFF ] ... libcrypto: [ OFF ] ... libunwind: [ OFF ] ... libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ OFF ] ... zlib: [ OFF ] ... lzma: [ OFF ] ... get_cpuid: [ OFF ] ... bpf: [ OFF ] ... libaio: [ OFF ] ... libzstd: [ OFF ] ... disassembler-four-args: [ OFF ] Makefile.config:414: *** No gnu/libc-version.h found, please install glibc-dev[el]. Stop. Makefile.perf:230: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 Makefile:69: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 With CC and CXX quoted, some of those features are now detected. Fixes: e3232c2f39ac ("tools build feature: Use CC and CXX from parent") Signed-off-by: Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/build/Makefile.feature | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile.feature b/tools/build/Makefile.feature index 774f0b0ca28a..e7818b44b48e 100644 --- a/tools/build/Makefile.feature +++ b/tools/build/Makefile.feature @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ endif feature_check = $(eval $(feature_check_code)) define feature_check_code - feature-$(1) := $(shell $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT_FEATURES) CC=$(CC) CXX=$(CXX) CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_CFLAGS-$(1))" CXXFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CXXFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_CXXFLAGS-$(1))" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-$(1))" -C $(feature_dir) $(OUTPUT_FEATURES)test-$1.bin >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0) + feature-$(1) := $(shell $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT_FEATURES) CC="$(CC)" CXX="$(CXX)" CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_CFLAGS-$(1))" CXXFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CXXFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_CXXFLAGS-$(1))" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) $(FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-$(1))" -C $(feature_dir) $(OUTPUT_FEATURES)test-$1.bin >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0) endef feature_set = $(eval $(feature_set_code)) -- 2.25.1