INSTALL.md: Document how to add custom compiler flags.

CC: Mark B Kavanagh <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> Acked-by: Russell Bryant <[email protected]>
lzg19 · Apr 2, 2015 · 73c3389 · 73c3389
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@@ -196,6 +196,14 @@ To use 'clang' compiler:
 
       `% ./configure CC=clang`
 
+To supply special flags to the C compiler, specify them as CFLAGS on
+the configure command line.  If you want the default CFLAGS, which
+include "-g" to build debug symbols and "-O2" to enable optimizations,
+you must include them yourself.  For example, to build with the
+default CFLAGS plus "-mssse3", you might run configure as follows:
+
+      `% ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -mssse3"`
+
 To build the Linux kernel module, so that you can run the
 kernel-based switch, pass the location of the kernel build
 directory on --with-linux.  For example, to build for a running