[Interest] update on building Qt/Linux with clang?

[Sérgio Martins]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:14 PM René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday November 07 2018 11:13:29 Sérgio Martins wrote:
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> > Can you share a link to a LLVM or Qt bug report where you're expecting
> > improvements ?
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> It was on this mailing list.
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> I haven't tried with Qt but I manage to use -flto with clang on Linux by making sure a recent enough ld (and not the gold one) is used. On the whole I find that the performance and compactness gains don't justify the increased build time, though.

FWIW, I just tried -flto with clang-7.0 and gold-1.16 and can't
reproduce QTBUG-43556 anymore.

Regards,
Sergio M.