[U-Boot] Building under Cygwin - "-ansi" flag?

[Jeroen Hofstee]

Dear Vasili,

On ma, 2014-05-19 at 12:45 +0300, Vasili Galka wrote:
[...]

> 2. I see a reoccurring pattern of some headers being used from the host,
>    causing mismatches and arising build errors. Then some way is sought
>    to include headers from U-Boot tree prior to them which solves the
>    problem. This happens for both Linux and Cygwin. 

you can add FreeBSD to the list as well, see [1]

>    This pattern is a
>    result of the original decision from 2004 to prioritize the host
>    include paths over the paths from U-Boot tree. 

any reference?

> I see this happening
>    again and again with different headers in the future. So here comes
>    the question, is it really the right thing prioritize the include
>    paths this way? Why do host paths MUST come first?
>    I'll try reverting this locally and looking what breaks and what
>    alternative solutions exist.

I have no idea why it is the way it is, but keep in mind that e.g. stdio
headers in u-boot is quite something different then stdio for the target
userland.

Regards,
Jeroen

[1] http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-May/179301.html