let us compilation choice to be honored. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39900 Index: src/bootstrap/lib.rs --- src/bootstrap/lib.rs.orig +++ src/bootstrap/lib.rs @@ -1117,7 +1117,6 @@ impl Build { .args() .iter() .map(|s| s.to_string_lossy().into_owned()) - .filter(|s| !s.starts_with("-O") && !s.starts_with("/O")) .collect::>(); // If we're compiling on macOS then we add a few unconditional flags