Shane Peelar

Is this ready to be merged?

OK -- I'd like to see this PR broken up into a few smaller PRs. Namely, I think the `FLTO` => `LTO` change should be a separate thing, as conceptually...

Regarding your question about what Matthew is doing over in the Olive project, he probably isn't merging directly on GitHub but doing it manually via the command line. He may...

Okay, I reviewed your individual commits and I'm satisfied -- but please in the future don't do mega PRs. There should be, in general, be one change per PR, whether...

Okay, I spoke too soon. There is a problematic part of this patch series: ~~~ # BEGIN: GNU linker workarounds

No harm, no foul -- this is how learning is done!

On my system, GCC 9.3.0: ~~~ > gcc -Q --help=common | grep fuse-linker -fuse-linker-plugin [disabled] ~~~

Okay, I did some more reading and went into the GCC sources. Apparently it really is used as @nivedita76 said -- the only time it isn't used is if you...

I went ahead and disabled LTO on these packages as I'm strapped for time at the moment to deep dive and figure out where they are breaking. Normally LLVM builds...

I'm on Qt `5.14.0_beta3` with the latest KDE `5.17.3`, full LTO and not seeing any problems. GCC `9.2.0-r2` with `ld.bfd`, for the record. I am using prelink. How is your...