Re: example COPTFLAGS

Jan Stary <[email protected]> writes:
> This is wht the exampla make.conf says about COPTFLAGS
> on my freshly installed 15.0-RELEASE:
>
> # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should use
> # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not applicable to kernel builds anyway).
> # There is very little to gain by using higher optimization levels, and doing
> # so can cause problems.
> #
> #COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
>
> But leaving everything at default apparently uses -O2 -pipe
> for the kernel build? Is the comment out of date then?

The example is outdated.

COPTFLAGS is used for the kernel.  Everything else, including kernel
modules, uses CFLAGS.

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