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+SUMMARY = "Sysroot poisoning test"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
+
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+inherit nopackages
+
+# This test confirms that compiling code that searches /usr/include for headers
+# will result in compiler errors.  This recipe should will fail to build and
+# oe-selftest has a test that verifies that.
+do_compile() {
+    touch empty.c
+    ${CPP} ${CFLAGS} -I/usr/include empty.c
+}
+
+EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"