diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 4d571626..c3b0f929 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ pkgver() {
 }
 
 build() {
-  export CFLAGS+=" -O3"
+  # makepkg uses -O2 by default, but we *really* want -O3
+  # -Wno-missing-profile since we're not exercising everything when doing PGO builds
+  # -fno-plt because performance (this is the default in makepkg anyway)
+  export CFLAGS+=" -O3 -Wno-missing-profile -fno-plt"
+
   meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release --wrap-mode=nofallback -Db_lto=true ..
 
   if [[ -v WAYLAND_DISPLAY ]]; then