[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/4] README: add doc for how to supply user specific compiler flags to Kbuild

Daniel Schwierzeck daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 15:31:04 UTC 2018


Probably not all users are aware of this possibility, thus add a
pointer to the README. Also add a useful example.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com>

---

Changes in v2:
- new patch

 README | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index b53ea7dfe3..b055ae7ef2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3719,6 +3719,11 @@ this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
 variable.
 
+User specific CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS can be passed to the compiler by
+setting the according environment variables KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS.
+For example to treat all compiler warnings as errors:
+
+	make KCFLAGS=-Werror
 
 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
-- 
2.16.1



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