In sys/<arch>/conf/Makefile set TARGET to <arch>. That allows
sys/conf/makeLINT.mk to only do certain things for certain
architectures.
Note that neither arm nor mips have the Makefile there, thus
essentially not (yet) supporting LINT. This would enable them
do add special treatment to sys/conf/makeLINT.mk as well chosing
one of the many configurations as LINT.