GNU bug report logs - #17806
24.4.50; Branch emacs-24 fails to beuild on Debian

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta <at> golden-gryphon.com>

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #58 received at 17806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta <at> golden-gryphon.com>,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 17806 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17806: 24.4.50; Branch emacs-24 fails to beuild on Debian
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:58:58 -0400

Dmitry Antipov wrote:

> Well, this is considered experimental and known for its controversial results
[...]
> After all, --enable-link-time-optimization is not enabled by default
> (and never should be), users aren't enforced to enable it - so I don't
> see a problem here; INSTALL may warn about potentially unstable
> results of using this option.

I do not feel that the Emacs's documentation reflects the above.
People have already suggested enabling this option by default:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13834

As it stands, I think people just see "optimization == better".
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 47 days ago.

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