Add support for building plugin with lto.

Use lto by default.

2 files changed, 48 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 3c05c38..1affb18 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ autoreconf -i
 cd build
 if [[ "${CMD}" == "default" ]]; then
     export CC=gcc
-    ../configure --enable-sanitize
+    ../configure --enable-sanitize --enable-lto
 elif [[ "${CMD}" == "old" ]]; then
     ../configure
 elif [[ "${CMD}" == "gprof" ]]; then
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5035edb..2fb99a4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -94,6 +94,25 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(
 )
 AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_WERROR, test x$enable_werror = xyes)
 
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(
+    [lto],
+        AC_HELP_STRING(
+        [--enable-lto],
+        [
+            Enables or Disables Linktime Code Optimization (LTO is disabled by default)
+        ]
+    ),
+    [
+        enable_lto="$enableval"
+        case $enableval in
+            "no");;
+            "yes");;
+            *) AC_MSG_ERROR([[invalid argument --enable-lto=$enableval... stopping]]);;
+        esac
+    ],
+    [enable_lto="no"]
+)
+
 OLD_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
 LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -rdynamic"
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $CC accepts -rdynamic])
@@ -151,6 +170,34 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_COMPILER_WFLAG],
     ]
 )
 
+if test "$enable_lto" != "no" ; then
+    OLD_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -flto -ffat-lto-objects"
+
+    OLD_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
+    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -flto -ffat-lto-objects"
+
+    AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $CC supports -flto])
+    AC_RUN_IFELSE(
+        [AC_LANG_SOURCE([
+            int main(int argc, char **argv){
+                return 0;
+            }
+        ])],
+        [
+            AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+        ],
+        [
+            AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+            CFLAGS="$OLD_CFLAGS"
+            LDFLAGS="$OLD_LDFLAGS"
+        ],
+        [
+            AC_MSG_RESULT([guessing no])
+        ]
+    )
+fi
+
 AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_SANITIZER_FLAG],
     [
         AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $CC supports -fsanitize=$1])