[Buildroot] [PATCH] qt5: Disable passing of -isystem flag in CXXFLAGS

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Fri Sep 23 14:58:49 UTC 2016


Some Qt5 sub-projects as well as 3rd-party apps written on Qt
are failing to compile with gcc 6.x like that:
---------------------------->8-------------------------
In file included from XXX/output/host/usr/arc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/include/c++/6.2.1/bits/stl_algo.h:59:0,
                 from XXX/output/host/usr/arc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/include/c++/6.2.1/algorithm:62,
                 from XXX/output/host/usr/arc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qglobal.h:88,
                 from XXX/output/host/usr/arc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qpair.h:37,
                 from qmediametadata.h:37,
                 from qmediametadata.cpp:28:
XXX/output/host/usr/arc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/include/c++/6.2.1/cstdlib:75:25: fatal error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
 #include_next <stdlib.h>
                         ^
compilation terminated.
---------------------------->8-------------------------

That happens because qmake trying to play smart passes some
include paths in Makefile with "-isystem" prefix.
Which in some cases lead to build failure well described in [1].

A little bit more details below on what really happens:

1. In "configure" script Qt determines default include paths of the
   toolchain and stores them in DEFAULT_INCDIRS variable, see [2].

2. On qmake execution when it creates Makefile out of .pro-file
   it parses headers in INCLUDEPATH variable and if a path matches
   one in DEFAULT_INCDIRS then in CXXFLAGS that path is written
   with $QMAKE_CFLAGS_ISYSTEM prefix, otherwise non-matching include
   path ends up in CXXFLAGS with normal "-I" prefix.

3. By default for gcc "QMAKE_CFLAGS_ISYSTEM = -isystem", see [3].

4. gcc fails to find stdlib.h, again refer to Jörg's explanation in [1].

What we do here we force set QMAKE_CFLAGS_ISYSTEM to "" and so qmake
won't use "-isystem" any longer instead expected "-I" will be used for
all headers, see [4].

That fixes building of Qt5Webkit on ARM with gcc 6.x and a number of
autobuilder failures for ARC (the an arch that uses gcc 6 by default) like:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/56a/56a6700774af692e7f5a99b452b15e4e8592310f
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/697/697412b29bf031bf8f246cc3af97ebcbf6bf6d1b

[1] https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=e79272fa7ff3d66c18de3514b912cd9d68d121a4
[2] http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/configure?h=5.6.1#n3660
[3] http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/mkspecs/common/gcc-base.conf?h=5.6.1#n47
[4] http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/qmake/generators/unix/unixmake2.cpp?&h=5.6.1#n193

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net>
Cc: Julien Corjon <corjon.j at ecagroup.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
---
 package/qt5/qt5base/qmake.conf | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5base/qmake.conf b/package/qt5/qt5base/qmake.conf
index 2152d3c..49cf898 100644
--- a/package/qt5/qt5base/qmake.conf
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5base/qmake.conf
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE += -O3
 CONFIG                 += nostrip
 
 QMAKE_LIBS             += -lrt -lpthread -ldl
+QMAKE_CFLAGS_ISYSTEM   =
 
 include(../common/linux_device_post.conf)
 load(qt_config)
-- 
2.6.3



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