Disable incremental linking to reduce build size on Windows #6898
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A previous PR removed the unused /LTCG linker flag, which was also disabling incremental linking, permitting the build to stay under a certain size. Now that the incremental linking is enabled again, the size of a full build with RelWithDebInfo increased by 29GB, for a total of almost 50GB. This is too big, so disable incremental linking to reduce build size.
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A previous PR removed the unused /LTCG linker flag,
which was also disabling incremental linking,
permitting the build to stay under a certain size.
Now that the incremental linking is enabled again,
the size of a full build with RelWithDebInfo increased by 29GB,
for a total of almost 50GB.
This is too big, so disable incremental linking to reduce build size.