set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER "${CROSS_PATH}/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc")
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER "${CROSS_PATH}/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++")
+#
+# Different build system distros set release optimization level to different
+# things according to their local policy, eg, Fedora is -O2 and Ubuntu is -O3
+# here. Actually the build system's local policy is completely unrelated to
+# our desire for cross-build release optimization policy for code built to run
+# on a completely different target than the build system itself.
+#
+# Since this goes last on the compiler commandline we have to override it to a
+# sane value for cross-build here. Notice some gcc versions enable broken
+# optimizations with -O3.
+#
+if (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE MATCHES RELEASE OR CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE MATCHES Release OR CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE MATCHES release)
+ set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE ${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE} -O2)
+ set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE} -O2)
+endif()
+
# Where to look for the target environment. (More paths can be added here)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH "${CROSS_PATH}")