[Buildroot] uClibc missing limits.h

[Hinko Kocevar]

Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:05:06AM +0200, Hinko Kocevar wrote:
>> Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hinko Kocevar wrote:
>>>>> Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:22:25PM +0200, Hinko Kocevar wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've found a way for uClibc to find headers that are not in the
>>>>>>> $(shell $CC -print-file-name=include), but in $(shell $CC
>>>>>>> -print-file-name=include)-fixed.
>>>>>>> According to
>>>>>>> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2007-03/msg00017.html LIBC
>>>>>>> should also look in other gcc provided header directories (eg.
>>>>>>> include-fixed) instead only relying on 'include' to contain all
>>>>>>> correct headers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Below is uClibc patch for this (tested on cris).
>>>>>> Well, that's not really correct since the default search path already
>>>>>> should to be
>>>>>> $target_triple/$ver/include \
>>>>>> $target_triple/$ver/include-fixed \
>>>>>>
>>> Removing "-nostdinc" from CFLAGS in "uClibc-0.9.29/Rules.mak"
>>> allows the ARM compilation to continue,
>> But is this OK?
> 
> no.

Looking at the gcc manual "-nostdinc" causes compiler to omit the standard include directories:
-nostdinc
    Do not search the standard system directories for header files. Only the directories you have specified with -I options (and the directory of the current file, if appropriate) are searched.

IMHO, only when compiling uClibc we need to worry about the "-nostdinc" flag hence we should add -I directive to the compiler flags as suggested by the manual and solve the missing limits.h problem.

Or we could use "-isystem" flag:

-isystem dir
    Search dir for header files, after all directories specified by -I but before the standard system directories. Mark it as a system directory, so that it gets the same special treatment as is applied to the standard system directories. If dir begins with =, then the = will be replaced by the sysroot prefix; see --sysroot and -isysroot. 

Best regards,
Hinko

PS.: Now I know what -I=dir stands for :)

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