When fortify source is enabled, the c-ares configure script will abort with: configure: CFLAGS error: CFLAGS may only be used to specify C compiler flags, not macro definitions. Use CPPFLAGS for: -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 Change the OpenWrt Makefile to move any -D flags from TARGET_CFLAGS to TARGET_CPPFLAGS in order to satisfy `configure`. Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>lilik-openwrt-22.03