Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CPPFLAGS+= in Makefile.target

[Paul Brook]

> Providing a definition in config-host.mak involves duplicating the
> value, which can't be right.  

Huh? No it doesn't. config-host.mak contains
CPPFLAGS=
then Makefile.target contains
CPPFLAGS+=whatever

> If there's no other way to do it then 
> there should be a reference to USER_CPPFLAGS or some such but frankly
> that's a pain and overkill.

Why don't you just put your custom flags in CFLAGS, not CPPFLAGS?
The former is deliberately left for the user to override.

Paul