wafHook: ignore configurePlatforms

waf does support --build and --host, but the only effect of these
options is an error message telling to use --cross-compile instead.
So we ignore these flags.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/waf/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/waf/setup-hook.sh
index 01392c9a3423..a837bfd17f29 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/waf/setup-hook.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/waf/setup-hook.sh
@@ -13,12 +13,18 @@ wafConfigurePhase() {
     local flagsArray=();
     for flag in $configureFlags "${configureFlagsArray[@]}";
     do
+        if [[
         # waf does not support these flags, but they are "blindly" added by the
         # pkgsStatic overlay, for example.
-        if [[ $flag != "--enable-static"
+              $flag != "--enable-static"
            && $flag != "--disable-static"
            && $flag != "--enable-shared"
-           && $flag != "--disable-shared" ]];
+           && $flag != "--disable-shared"
+        # these flags are added by configurePlatforms but waf just uses them
+        # to bail out in cross compilation cases
+           && $flag != --build=* 
+           && $flag != --host=* 
+           ]];
         then
             flagsArray=("${flagsArray[@]}" "$flag");
         fi;