>>>-- how do I teach a cross-build not to use CFLAGS and COPTS from
>>>/etc/mk.conf?
>>
>>perhaps something like:
>>
>>__HOST_MACHINE_ARCH!=uname -p
>>.if ${__HOST_MACHINE_ARCH} == ${MACHINE_ARCH}
>>CFLAGS=...
>>COPTS=...
>>.endif
>
>That helped, thanks.

excellent!

>For whatever reason I had the idea that mk.conf is pulled in directly by
>make(1); instead it is simply included by 'mk/bsd.own.mk'.

actually...$MAKECONF is pulled in by bsd.own.mk, so if you want
to...you can set MAKECONF in your shell's environment to pull in an
alternate.  or set MAKECONF at the top of a Makefile (to affect that
make process).  there are billions of tricks you can do...

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