https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104852
--- Comment #6 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jackson Huff from comment #5) > Just for reference, another person in bug 52590 had tried the same before > but also had no luck. No, they tried a different command, not the one I suggested. I just checked out the code in an Ubuntu container and running make VERBOSE=1 I see that the flags are added to the start of the command: [100%] Linking CXX executable hajime /usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/link.txt --verbose=1 /usr/bin/c++ -static -Wl,--whole-archive -lpthread -Wl,--no-whole-archive -O3 -DNDEBUG -s -flto -fno-fat-lto-objects -flto=auto CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/hajime.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/server.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/server_features.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/server_performance.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/server_performance_counters.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/getvarsfromfile.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/output.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/installer.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/deduce.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/languages.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/wizard.cpp.o CMakeFiles/hajime.dir/constants.cpp.o -o hajime That is wrong: https://web.archive.org/web/20210609020437/c-faq.com/lib/libsearch.html