https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24498
--- Comment #11 from Martin Liška <marxin.liska at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to kloczek from comment #10)
> > I would add a configure option --enable-lto that will append -flto to
> > {C,LD}FLAGS.
>
> Please don't do that.
>
> LTO can be driven using only env variable.
>
> % CFLAGS="<clto_cflags>" LDFLAGS="<lto_ldflags>" ./configure
Works for me.
>
> Please use KISS principle and do not implement something which can be
> already done other way *without* touching existing code.
>
> PS. Changing {C,LD}FLAGS is not only part of using LTO. You need to pass NM,
> RANLIB and AR env variables.
Not necessarily. Typical Linux systems, like openSUSE, utilize auto-loading
mechanism of LTO plugins:
$ strace -f -s512 nm foo.o 2>&1 | grep plugin
...
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/bin/../bin/../lib/bfd-plugins/liblto_plugin.so.0.0.0",
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5
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