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Date:      Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:09:53 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: example COPTFLAGS
Message-ID:  <865x3sq8am.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
In-Reply-To: <aifpIeueRhpNesTY@www.stare.cz> (Jan Stary's message of "Tue, 9 Jun 2026 12:21:21 %2B0200")
References:  <aifpIeueRhpNesTY@www.stare.cz>

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Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> 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 Is the comment out of date then?

The example is outdated.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.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org


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