We are not properly passing down TARGET_CFLAGS and TARGET_CPPFLAGS and this can be noticed with external toolchains with the following build error: mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wdisabled-optimization -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wbad-function-cast -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -std=c99 -I../lua/ -fPIC -c -o lpvm.o lpvm.c lpvm.c:10:17: fatal error: lua.h: No such file or directory #include "lua.h" ^ compilation terminated. make[4]: *** [lpvm.o] Error 1 Re-use COPT to pass our TARGET_CFLAGS and TARGET_CPPFLAGS Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>lilik-openwrt-22.03