How to specify COPTS when cross-building for SPARCclassic?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Michael wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Michael wrote:
> > > ... and while there don't forget to put -mcpu=v8 -mtune=v8 into
> > > CFLAGS, otherwise you'd get v7 binaries which would slow things
> > > down even more.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to do this just for the cross build? I'm always
> > confused about all this.
>
> I meant COPTS. Putting it into CFLAGS would affect building the tools
> which would probably now be what you want.
> For what it's worth I have wrapper scripts for cross-builds, they
> don't do much except emptying CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and so on and
> putting options appropriate for the target into COPTS. After that it's
> just build.sh -m sparc distribution.

I'm going to be a total noob and ask how exactly to do this. I put it in
an environment variable (using man (1) env) but I'm not sure what's what
it takes. I'm crosscompiling and I'm not good enough at sh scripting to
figure out how to conditionally put it into mk.conf.

Thanks.

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