Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> What's wrong with ``makeoptions "COPTS+=foo"'' in the config, and
> therefore ``COPTS+=foo'' in the kernel Makefile? The `+' will add to
> your environment setting, instead of overwriting it.

We are not talking about kernel config files, we are talking
about what is in arch/FOO/conf/Makefile.FOO. COPTS is THERE defined
as
COPTS?=something

so if you pass your own COPTS via environment, it would override the setting
and machine-specific COPTS are lost.

There is no way to say "all I build now would have -pipe in COPTS".
Note I don't count the makeoptions COPTS+=-pipe, that is just too
inflexible.

Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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