issue28032: never imply --with-lto as part of --with-optimizations.

Too many build tool chains do not properly support it, including building
and linking an executable fine that simply segfaults when you try to run
it (such as debian jessie 8.5's gcc 4.9).  On others where it does appear
to build (ubuntu 16.04's gcc 5.4) there are still test_distutils and test_gdb
failures to deal with.

We're not going to spend time attempting to maintain a complicated white list
of what does and doesn't work in our configure.ac file.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 6dfbd8c30249f39bf7b9576114ace4b32e37a567..414b658482323b2cb98eaf4875f2387bf96ef443 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ You should do a "make clean" at the toplevel first.)
 
 To get an optimized build of Python, "configure --with-optimizations" before
 you run make.  This sets the default make targets up to enable Profile Guided
-Optimization (PGO) and Link Time Optimization (LTO) on most platforms.
-For more details, see the sections bellow.
+Optimization (PGO) and may be used to auto-enable Link Time Optimization (LTO)
+on some platforms.  For more details, see the sections bellow.
 
 
 Profile Guided Optimization
@@ -79,9 +79,10 @@ that is optimized and suitable for distribution or production installation.
 Link Time Optimization
 ----------------------
 
-LTO takes advantages of recent compiler toolchains ability to optimize across
-the otherwise arbitrary .o file boundary when building final executables or
-shared libraries for additional performance gains.
+Enabled via configure's --with-lto flag.  LTO takes advantages of recent
+compiler toolchains ability to optimize across the otherwise arbitrary .o file
+boundary when building final executables or shared libraries for additional
+performance gains.
 
 
 What's New

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c73b829e299bdd33d0dfb553ea89fcb43de7dea4..ab1c32acc9659cd1a6f1a1f12b736ace89add2eb 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ Optional Packages:
                           compiler
   --with-suffix=.exe      set executable suffix
   --with-pydebug          build with Py_DEBUG defined
-  --with-optimizations    Enable all optimizations when available (LTO, PGO,
+  --with-optimizations    Enable expensive optimizations (PGO, maybe LTO,
                           etc). Disabled by default.
   --with-lto              Enable Link Time Optimization in PGO builds.
                           Disabled by default.
@@ -6565,13 +6565,10 @@ $as_echo "no" >&6; }
 fi
 
 if test "$Py_OPT" = 'true' ; then
-  Py_LTO='true'
-  case $ac_sys_system in
-    Darwin*)
-      # At least on macOS El Capitan, LTO does not work with PGO.
-      Py_LTO='false'
-      ;;
-    esac
+  # Intentionally not forcing Py_LTO='true' here.  Too many toolchains do not
+  # compile working code using it and both test_distutils and test_gdb are
+  # broken when you do managed to get a toolchain that works with it.  People
+  # who want LTO need to use --with-lto themselves.
   DEF_MAKE_ALL_RULE="profile-opt"
   REQUIRE_PGO="yes"
   DEF_MAKE_RULE="build_all"

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c2aa8ae953780879b4970bdeb473c3099ff92038..36758d46dd446d85b9ac619c6a3cd50ba4b09709 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ AC_SUBST(DEF_MAKE_ALL_RULE)
 AC_SUBST(DEF_MAKE_RULE)
 Py_OPT='false'
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(for --with-optimizations)
-AC_ARG_WITH(optimizations, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-optimizations], [Enable all optimizations when available (LTO, PGO, etc). Disabled by default.]),
+AC_ARG_WITH(optimizations, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-optimizations], [Enable expensive optimizations (PGO, maybe LTO, etc).  Disabled by default.]),
 [
 if test "$withval" != no
 then
@@ -1247,13 +1247,10 @@ else
 fi],
 [AC_MSG_RESULT(no)])
 if test "$Py_OPT" = 'true' ; then
-  Py_LTO='true'
-  case $ac_sys_system in
-    Darwin*)
-      # At least on macOS El Capitan, LTO does not work with PGO.
-      Py_LTO='false'
-      ;;
-    esac
+  # Intentionally not forcing Py_LTO='true' here.  Too many toolchains do not
+  # compile working code using it and both test_distutils and test_gdb are
+  # broken when you do managed to get a toolchain that works with it.  People
+  # who want LTO need to use --with-lto themselves.
   DEF_MAKE_ALL_RULE="profile-opt"
   REQUIRE_PGO="yes"
   DEF_MAKE_RULE="build_all"