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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:53:44 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2]
 package/gobject-introspection/g-ir-scanner: do not set default compiler
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Adam, All,

On 2020-03-21 22:47 +0100, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> On 2020-03-20 15:23 -0700, aduskett at gmail.com spake thusly:
> > From: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>
> > Commit 8b0aeafce2a22913e6a44818227f6a39e3225157 set 7 new variables in
> > g-ir-scanner.in:
> > 
> > export CPP="${CPP:-${HOST_DIR}/bin/@BASENAME_TARGET_CPP@}"
> > export CC="${CC:-${HOST_DIR}/bin/@BASENAME_TARGET_CC@}"
> > export CXX="${CXX:-${HOST_DIR}/bin/@BASENAME_TARGET_CXX@}"
> > CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS:- at TARGET_CPPFLAGS@}"
> > CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:- at TARGET_CFLAGS@}"
> > CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS:- at TARGET_CXXFLAGS@}"
> > LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS:- at TARGET_LDFLAGS@}"
> > 
> > However, defaulting to CPP, CC, or CXX breaks some packages because they may
> > hard code CC to the system CC.
> > 
> > One such package is libostree which has the line
> > "INTROSPECTION_SCANNER_ENV = CC=gcc" in the Makefile.
> 
> But then, that's clearly a bug in libostree! They should not ever try to
> call a hard-coded compiler.
[--SNIP--]

Mu alternate proposal was just merged, so I've marked this series as
rejected. It anyway helped understand the actual problem, so it was
definitely not in vain. Thanks! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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