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docs: Mention that we build with strict-aliasing disabled

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Hopefully discouraging people from overriding that and building with it
enabled.

Pro-tip: GLib will break.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791622
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<command>./configure --help</command> for information about
the standard options.
</para>
<para>
GLib is compiled with
<ulink url="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#index-fstrict-aliasing">strict aliasing</ulink>
disabled. It is strongly recommended that this is not re-enabled by
overriding the compiler flags, as GLib has not been tested with strict
aliasing and cannot be guaranteed to work.
</para>
<para>
The GTK+ documentation contains
<ulink url="https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-building.html">further details</ulink>