On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:31:28AM -0700, Markus Mayer wrote: > In order to allow the user to pass extra arguments to the host > compiler, we no longer overwrite the host compiler flags in the > makefile, but append them to what was passed in. > > Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer <markus.mayer@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Makefile | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 97b2861..5795eea 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ CONFIG_SHELL := $(shell if [ -x "$$BASH" ]; then echo $$BASH; \ > > HOSTCC = gcc > HOSTCXX = g++ > -HOSTCFLAGS = -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer > -HOSTCXXFLAGS = -O2 > +HOSTCFLAGS += -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer > +HOSTCXXFLAGS += -O2 > > ifeq ($(shell $(HOSTCC) -v 2>&1 | grep -c "clang version"), 1) > HOSTCFLAGS += -Wno-unused-value -Wno-unused-parameter \ With this patch you can only override HOSTCFLAGS. In many cases appending to the falgs is actually what you want. Please take a look at how we have implemented it for the kernel with KCFLAGS. And notice that this is also described in Documentation/kbuild Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html