Whenever a binary is created and linked against a static lib that was
compiled with LTCG, the final linking step requires the compiler flags
so that the pre-compiled data in the shared library can get properly
compiled.
This could happen for a static build of Qt with LTCG, but also happens
frequently for Qt's own build when linking regular libraries and
applications against QtBootstrap or QtPlatformSupport. The linking fails
when the target is a shared library (example: QtWaylandClient linking
against QtPlatformSupport).
The .prl file actually contains the "ltcg" flag, so the best solution
would actually be to process that flag there and add link_ltcg if any
dependent .prl has "ltcg", but I couldn't find out how to do that.
Change-Id: I4a75a14d1dcb8c2089a427285e25d5555df7d7d3
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@theqtcompany.com>
GCC currently requires fat object files for static libraries, since the
linker would otherwise not load the .o file from the archive at all and
the linking would fail with a lot of undefined references. Clang on
Linux also needs this, but it has no equivalent flag, so enabling LTCG
for Clang on static libraries will result in linker error.
This commit does not add support for enabling it in configure. It can be
enabled on a per-project basis by doing CONFIG += ltcg or by passing
-config ltcg to qmake's command-line.
Change-Id: I52cf99f1ed9f1701e23a3b457ba3502fd28126ce
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@digia.com>
