On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Yang Tse wrote:

> --disable-optimize option given to configure. Strip optimizer flags from
> CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS and let configure introduce '-O0' into CFLAGS.

Stripping flags could be harmless on more compilers, but -O0 seems very gcc
specific.

> --enable-optimize option given to configure with no arguments. Strip
> optimizer flags from CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS and let configure introduce '-O2'
> into CFLAGS.

Again gcc specific. If gcc wasn't detected, I guess this should simply output
a message about it not being able to enable optimization. Unless we get code
to detect and work with other compilers too.

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