On 1/3/21 2:19 pm, Allan McRae wrote:
Add the 'lto' option to enable building with link time optimization by adding '-flto' to both CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. The 'lto' option can be specificed both in the PKGBUILD or by setting the default in makepkg.conf.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> ---
TODO: - strip LTO symbols from distributed .a/.o files. e.g. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1650804&action=diff
- provide helper script to adjust old autoconf files for LTO support(?) e.g. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1650843&action=diff Not sure this should be part of makepkg or distribution tools.
In Arch, this script could be distributed as a makepkg template. As makepkg-template places a copy of the templated code in the PKGBUILD, users would not need devtools installed to use the PKGBUILD. I'm thinking this is the best approach. Opinions? A