Re: bin/59713: bin/sh/Makefile clobbers COPTS.<fn>

[Sotiris Lamprinidis<sotiris%lamprinidis.com@localhost>]

> From gnats%netbsd.org@localhost Tue Oct 21 21:45:13 2025
> From: "Robert Elz via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,sotiris%lamprinidis.com@localhost
> Subject: Re: bin/59713: bin/sh/Makefile clobbers COPTS.<fn>
> Cc: 
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:45:01 +0000 (UTC)
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> The following reply was made to PR bin/59713; it has been noted by GNATS.
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> From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: bin/59713: bin/sh/Makefile clobbers COPTS.<fn>
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:43:19 +0700
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>      Date:        Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:15:01 +0000 (UTC)
>      From:        sotiris%lamprinidis.com@localhost
>      Message-ID:  <20251019161501.25FA11A923C%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
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>    | >Description:
>    | bin/sh clobbers file-specific COPTS.<fn>; see patch
>    |
>    | I was trying to build netbsd-11 from netbsd-11/GCC 12.5 and there are a
>    | few Werrors I addressed using COPTS.<fn> flags,
>  
>  I'd prefer to fix the code to avoid the warnings rather than work around
>  them with "turn off" compilation flags, unless they are the kind of thing
>  which really would be difficult or impossible to handle.
>  
>  What errors (warnings) are you fixing, and which architecture is that for?
>  
>  Feel free to send me off-list mail (to kre%munnari.oz.au@localhost or kre%netbsd.org@localhost)
>  rather than adding lots more to this PR.
>  
>  kre
>  
>
I am using -O3 and this was causing the errors. This would be a hacky way to
do that without changing the source, "sniping" the files and disabling
problematic optimizations for them.

On second thought, this is not a good idea. It could possibly pollute the
namespace. So, let's close this.

Thanks for your time.
S.