bug#23474: Gzip and CFLAGS

2016-05-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Tom Smith wrote: > Currently, I am looking at “CFLAGS= -O”. You don't mention which gzip version. If you haven't already, please try the current version, gzip 1.8. Its 'configure' script should default to -O2 optimization for GCC, and to no optimization for other compilers. To some ex

bug#23474: Gzip and CFLAGS

2016-05-06 Thread Tom Smith
Hello there, After having compiled gzip, I had looked at the Makefile “./configure” generated. Looking at CFLAGS=”” (system configuration section), not many compiler flags are specified for optimization. The “Specific Targets” section sets different flags for