Re: [PATCH] Allow CPPFLAGS to be set on the make command line

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 2018-08-07 14:09, Tom Tromey wrote:
> While looking into PR build/8751 (which seems to be fixed), I noticed
> that it's not possible to change CPPFLAGS for gdb on the "make"
> command line.  It's reasonable to want to do this sometimes, and I
> think this patch should suffice.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog
> 2018-08-07  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
> 
> 	* Makefile.in (CPPFLAGS): New variable.
> 	(INTERNAL_CPPFLAGS): Use it.
> ---
>  gdb/ChangeLog   | 5 +++++
>  gdb/Makefile.in | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/Makefile.in b/gdb/Makefile.in
> index 8c744d70c0..7ff817d790 100644
> --- a/gdb/Makefile.in
> +++ b/gdb/Makefile.in
> @@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ PROFILE_CFLAGS = @PROFILE_CFLAGS@
>  # when running make.  I.E.: "make CFLAGS=-Wmissing-prototypes".
>  CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@
>  CXXFLAGS = @CXXFLAGS@
> +CPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@
> 
>  # Set by configure, for e.g. expat.  Python installations are such 
> that
>  # C headers are included using their basename (for example, we 
> #include
> @@ -564,7 +565,7 @@ CXXFLAGS = @CXXFLAGS@
>  # are sometimes a little generic, we think that the risk of collision
>  # with other header files is high.  If that happens, we try to 
> mitigate
>  # a bit the consequences by putting the Python includes last in the 
> list.
> -INTERNAL_CPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@ @GUILE_CPPFLAGS@ @PYTHON_CPPFLAGS@
> +INTERNAL_CPPFLAGS = $(CPPFLAGS) @GUILE_CPPFLAGS@ @PYTHON_CPPFLAGS@
> 
>  # INTERNAL_CFLAGS is the aggregate of all other *CFLAGS macros.
>  INTERNAL_CFLAGS_BASE = \

+1.

Simon