(I failed to send this email out before the one containing a corrected patch.)
>> + ;; Disable unsupported optimization flags on MIPS64 >> + ,@(if (string-prefix? "mips64" (or (%current-target-system) >> + (%current-system))) >> + '("OPTIMIZATIONS=-ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -O3") >> + '())) > > Can you tell what would happen on ARM systems, or other systems? > Depending on the answer to that question, it might be better to invert > the conditional and override OPTIMIZATIONS on any non-Intel system. I think you are right. The default OPTIMIZATIONS (according to common.mak) are OPTIMIZATIONS ?= -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math \ -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fno-finite-math-only and I think that at least the first three are only valid for x86.