Re: [PATCH 1/1] Stop using legacy -ffat-lto-objects flag

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Evan Klitzke <evan@eklitzke.org>
> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 12:05:28 -0800
> 
> Currently when Emacs is configured using the 
> --enable-link-time-optimization configure flag, the build will use the 
> -ffat-lto-objects flag if the host compiler is GCC (but not Clang). 
> According to the comments in configure.ac this is to work around an 
> issue with LTO builds in GCC 4.9.0. This flag makes builds take much 
> longer (and produces much larger object files), so I suggest removing it 
> as GCC 4.x is quite old at this point and doesn't have great LTO support 
> anyway.

I think this is too soon: fencepost.gnu.org, which runs Trisquel LTS,
still has GCC 4.8.4.

Thanks.