The build on Ubuntu Xenial with GCC 5.4.0 will fail with: cc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-Wimplicit-fallthrough’ This unsupported flag is not skipped as expected. It is because of the /bin/sh shell on Ubuntu, DASH, which does not support this &> redirection. Use 2>&1 to solve this problem. Signed-off-by: Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index e0a3938..ec23ed6 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ # ############################################################################## -cc-option = $(shell if $(CC) $(1) -c -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null &>/dev/null; \ +cc-option = $(shell if $(CC) $(1) -c -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; \ then echo $(1); fi) CFLAGS ?= -O2 -Wall -Wundef \ -- 2.17.1