Valeriy E. Ushakov said:
   
   >2) We have CPUFLAGS make variable for -mcpu= and its ilk.  Potential
   >   bonus of using it is that it's applied to assembler files as well
   >   (unlike CFLAGS &co).  I think at least some ports (arm most likely)
   >   already use that option to provide customized asm stuff.
   
   Where is this documented?

in share/mk/bsd.README.  should probably be meantioned elsewhere
i guess.  CPUFLAGS is the right place for these options -- it was
added to our makefiles for exactly the reason you meantioned --
to avoid removing other flags the system itself uses.


.mrg.