During bootstrap-prefix.sh we set CPPFLAGS="-isystem .../usr/include",
but on Cygwin xz-utils eventually use the windres compiler, which fails
to understand the -isystem flag.
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+if [[ ${CATEGORY}/${PN} == app-arch/xz-utils
+ && ${EBUILD_PHASE} == setup
+ && ${CPPFLAGS} == *-isystem*
+]]; then
+ # During bootstrap-prefix.sh we set CPPFLAGS="-isystem $EPREFIX/usr/include",
+ # but on Cygwin xz-utils eventually does use the windres compiler,
+ # which fails to understand -isystem.
+ # As xz-utils has no need for -isystem here, we can use -I instead.
+ CPPFLAGS=${CPPFLAGS//-isystem /-I}
+fi