[Buildroot] Add BR2_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS to be appended to TARGET_CXXFLAGS

[Buildroot] Add BR2_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS to be appended to TARGET_CXXFLAGS

[lpdev at cordier.org]

Dear all,



For some reason, I need to disable cxx11 ABI on my entire buildroot build. AFAIK, it is currently not possible to set project-wide cxx flag, like _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0. Currently this flag has to be set on all package manually.



After studying a bit the buildroot makefiles, TARGET_CXXFLAGS is populated by some buildroot options, such as BR2_BINFMT_FLAT, etc.



I see 2 possible solutions to solve that:



- at the buildroot build level, add an option like BR2_USE_CXX11_ABI, or more generally, BR2_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS (that can be extended to cflags as well).

- at the buildroot toolchain build level, add an option in the buildroot toolchain that allows to control the CXX11 ABI



What do you think about that?



Thanks



Louis-Paul CORDIER


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[Buildroot] Add BR2_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS to be appended to TARGET_CXXFLAGS

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Louis-Paul,

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:45:15 +0100 (CET)
lpdev at cordier.org wrote:

> I see 2 possible solutions to solve that:
> 
> - at the buildroot build level, add an option like BR2_USE_CXX11_ABI, or more generally, BR2_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS (that can be extended to cflags as well).
> - at the buildroot toolchain build level, add an option in the buildroot toolchain that allows to control the CXX11 ABI
> 
> What do you think about that?

The BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION is already there to allow passing some
custom CFLAGS. It doesn't work for you ?

(And yes the name of the option is stupid, but it's some historical
thing, and we never renamed it).

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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