From 55310050a1867e38a20f672d8692bd6bad3db448 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio SJ Musumeci <trapexit@spawn.link>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2026 19:20:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Preserve CPPFLAGS in release builds

- Append -DNDEBUG to existing CPPFLAGS in the release target.
- Keep caller-provided build flags for Debian packaging.
---
 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4dc0977a..07cfdf4d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ endef
 .PHONY: release-amd64 release-arm64 release-armhf release-riscv64
 .PHONY: release-sample release-static release-tarball release-installer
 release:
-	$(MAKE) RELEASE=1 CPPFLAGS=-DNDEBUG all
+	$(MAKE) RELEASE=1 CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS) -DNDEBUG" all
 release-all:
 	$(call build_release,"all")
 release-sample: