An RFC has now entered Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/3 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Update the buildflags in makepkg.conf to: #CPPFLAGS="" CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions \ -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Werror=format-security \ -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection" CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now" DEBUG_CFLAGS="-g -fvar-tracking-assignments"