make sure we re-use the existing CFLAGS settings so that we get all the right flags (like -fno-stack-protector). just append the few changes we want (the optimization levels). https://bugs.gentoo.org/590974 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ $(CC) -Wall -Werror -march=i486 -m32 -O0 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -fPIC $(SMP_FL) -fno-stack-protector -c -o memsize.o memsize.c random.o: random.c - $(CC) -c -Wall -march=i486 -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -ffreestanding random.c +random.o: CFLAGS += -O3 -fno-PIC clean: rm -f *.o *.s *.iso memtest.bin memtest memtest_shared \