* configure.ac: Warn about --enable-link-time-optimization's issues

in --help message.

Fixes: debbugs:17806

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 17d3f9401a3..07954be7d6b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2014-06-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+        * configure.ac: Warn about --enable-link-time-optimization's issues
+        in --help message (Bug#17806).
+
         Port to GCC 4.9.0 with link time optimization (Bug#17806).
         * configure.ac (CFLAGS): With link time optimization,
         use -ffat-lto-objects if supported; otherwise Emacs won't
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e9400047edc..3d840a1b484 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -757,7 +757,10 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcc-warnings],
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(link-time-optimization,
 [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-link-time-optimization],
                 [build emacs with link-time optimization.
-                 This is supported only for GCC since 4.5.0.])],
+                 This requires GCC 4.5.0 or later.
+                 It also makes Emacs harder to debug, and when we tried it
+                 with GCC 4.9.0 x86-64 it made Emacs slower, so it's not
+                 recommended for typical use.])],
 if test "${enableval}" != "no"; then
    AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether link-time optimization is supported])
    ac_lto_supported=no