# built. CPPFLAGS is used to pass the right include path to dependency rules.
GPM_CONF_ENV = CPPFLAGS="$(TARGET_CPPFLAGS) -I$(@D)/src/headers/"
+# For some reason, Microblaze gcc does not define __ELF__, which gpm
+# configure script uses to determine whether the architecture uses ELF
+# binaries and therefore can build shared libraries. We fix this by
+# telling GPM that ELF is used on Microblaze.
+ifeq ($(BR2_microblaze),y)
+GPM_CONF_ENV += itz_cv_sys_elf=yes
+endif
+
# gpm and ncurses have a circular dependency. As gpm function GPM_Wgetch()
# (requiring ncurses) is not recommended for use by ncurses people themselves
# and as it's better to have gpm support in ncurses that the contrary, we force