other: 0.888 instruction: 0.873 socket: 0.853 graphic: 0.840 mistranslation: 0.839 semantic: 0.832 device: 0.824 network: 0.818 assembly: 0.816 vnc: 0.814 KVM: 0.755 boot: 0.718 Qemu 2.3.0 failes to compile with GCC 5.1.0 and -flto Compiling Qemu 2.3.0 failes with the following error: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -fPIE -DPIE -m64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wempty-body -Wnested-externs -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Winit-self -Wignored-qualifiers -Wold-style-declaration -Wold-style-definition -Wtype-limits -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0 -I/home/gentoo/tmp/portage/app-emulation/qemu-2.3.0/work/qemu-2.3.0/tests -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -ftree-loop-distribution -fira-loop-pressure -ftree-vectorize -ftree-loop-linear -flto=5 -fuse-linker-plugin -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -m64 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -ftree-loop-distribution -fira-loop-pressure -ftree-vectorize -ftree-loop-linear -flto=5 -fuse-linker-plugin -Wl,-znow -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -o qemu-img qemu-img.o async.o thread-pool.o nbd.o block.o blockjob.o main-loop.o iohandler.o qemu-timer.o aio-posix.o qemu-io-cmds.o qemu-coroutine.o qemu-coroutine-lock.o qemu-coroutine-io.o qemu-coroutine-sleep.o coroutine-ucontext.o block/raw_bsd.o block/qcow.o block/vdi.o block/vmdk.o block/cloop.o block/dmg.o block/bochs.o block/vpc.o block/vvfat.o block/qcow2.o block/qcow2-refcount.o block/qcow2-cluster.o block/qcow2-snapshot.o block/qcow2-cache.o block/qed.o block/qed-gencb.o block/qed-l2-cache.o block/qed-table.o block/qed-cluster.o block/qed-check.o block/vhdx.o block/vhdx-endian.o block/vhdx-log.o block/parallels.o block/blkdebug.o block/blkverify.o block/block-backend.o block/snapshot.o block/qapi.o block/raw-posix.o block/linux-aio.o block/null.o block/mirror.o block/nbd.o block/nbd-client.o block/sheepdog.o block/accounting.o block/write-threshold.o block/curl.o libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a -lz -lbz2 -laio -lcurl -lm -lgthread-2.0 -pthread -lglib-2.0 -lz -lrt -lz -lcap-ng -luuid -lutil lto1: error: two or more sections for .gnu.lto_fprintf.2f4a95b725db6827 (null):0: confused by earlier errors, bailing out make[1]: *** [/home/gentoo/tmp/portage/app-emulation/qemu-2.3.0/temp/ccEUT6Vq.ltrans11.ltrans.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... lto-wrapper: fatal error: make returned 2 exit status compilation terminated. /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/5.1.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: fatal error: lto-wrapper failed collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status /home/gentoo/tmp/portage/app-emulation/qemu-2.3.0/work/qemu-2.3.0/rules.mak:122: recipe for target 'qemu-img' failed make: *** [qemu-img] Error 1 I've found an old GCC bugreport with the same error: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52159 (which has been marked as dup of https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59000) . I was able to reduce the object list to to three .o files which reproduce the error reliably: qemu-img.o qemu-io-cmds.o block/qapi.o. Please let me know if you need further information. This seems to be a GCC bug, not a QEMU bug? I'm going to close this bug, since it has been reported upstream with the GCC folks, and they don't seem to think this is an error on our side.