Compiler Optimisations
 

I would like to inquire about the method in which one passes compiler optimisations, when compiling large programs such as galeon. I edited a Makefile to reflect my prefrences which were:
These are the relevant optimisations for my AMD Duron 750 Mhz processor but when compiling I noticed it was not using the above optimisations for every thing. I then found out post compile that there were multiple Makefiles. So how would one go about setting default optimisations without editing a large number of Makefiles by hand ?

I have already come across a solution which involved setting environment variables and passing them to make but, the flags in the Makefiles also contain some custom arguements so compilation fails if I just set my optimisations in the shell and pass them to make.

So my question is is there anyway to just append -mcpu=xxx -march=xxx and changing the default -O2 optimisation level to -O3 for multiple Makefiles ?





Edit: spelling

You have to pass appropriate parameter to make, read "install" info in source package carefully for detailed info.
If you want to use it permanently, add CFLAGS=.... and CXXFLAGS=.... variables to your /etc/profile

...or you can simply use:

export CFLAGS='-march=athlon -g -O3'

and/or other flags before running configure script.

P.S.: I think -march option implies -mcpu. Check gcc info manual.