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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-06-20 12:46:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-06-20 12:46:18 -0700 |
| commit | 81e5c6fc89e277237cf290927fe339b53ad47b80 (patch) | |
| tree | a0c33cae86d8b1b3a5d9da2fe958fda191c0f13e /configure.ac | |
| parent | f49b49787c954ae858007ad149552a8af5b9d1e0 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-81e5c6fc89e277237cf290927fe339b53ad47b80.tar.gz | |
* configure.ac: Warn about --enable-link-time-optimization's issues
in --help message.
Fixes: debbugs:17806
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index e9400047edc..3d840a1b484 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -757,7 +757,10 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcc-warnings], AC_ARG_ENABLE(link-time-optimization, [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-link-time-optimization], [build emacs with link-time optimization. - This is supported only for GCC since 4.5.0.])], + This requires GCC 4.5.0 or later. + It also makes Emacs harder to debug, and when we tried it + with GCC 4.9.0 x86-64 it made Emacs slower, so it's not + recommended for typical use.])], if test "${enableval}" != "no"; then AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether link-time optimization is supported]) ac_lto_supported=no |