Merge files build

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 23/11/2020 à 21:10, Yuriy Skalko a écrit :
> After some changes to sources I've successfully used merged files build 
> of LyX with CMake on MinGW64 (LYX_MERGE_FILES=ON). It is somewhat faster 
> than normal build and resulting LyX executable is 2MB smaller.
> 
> But in INSTALL.cmake this type of build is marked as deprecated. Why? 
> Are there any problems with it?

We used to have this in autoconf (monolithic build) and we decided to 
remove it in 2.4.0. Isn't link-time-optimization doing the same thing?

JMarc