I've just tried to build Python with {C,CXX,LD}FLAGS set to '-flto'.

Unfortunately following conftest source file is fragile:

cat /tmp/mc.c
int
main ()
{

  unsigned int fpcr;
  __asm__ __volatile__ ("fmove.l %%fpcr,%0" : "=g" (fpcr));
  __asm__ __volatile__ ("fmove.l %0,%%fpcr" : : "g" (fpcr));

  ;
  return 0;
}

gcc --version:
gcc (GCC) 5.1.1 20150424 (prerelease)

gcc -c /tmp/mc.c
/tmp/mc.c: Assembler messages:
/tmp/mc.c:6: Error: no such instruction: `fmove.l %fpcr,%eax'
/tmp/mc.c:7: Error: no such instruction: `fmove.l -4(%rbp),%fpcr'

gcc -flto -c /tmp/mc.c

As GCC does not produce assembly with -flto and -c (unless you append -ffat-lto-objects), the compilation success.

Can you please write more robust configuration.
Thanks,
Martin

That means these tests are broken as well:

AC_MSG_CHECKING(for x64 gcc inline assembler)
AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether we can use gcc inline assembler to get and set x87 control word)

Okay, I'll have a look then (I first assumed this was mc68881 specific).

In what way are the x64/x87 tests broken? ./configure runs smoothly
here (gcc 4.8.2) with and without -flto.

Can you try "=m" and "m" for the asm output operands?

As I wrote, starting from GCC 4.9.0, the compiler does not emit any assembly with -flto and -c option. I would suggest to remove '-c' option that will force to create an executable.

"-c" is apparently generated by AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, which uses ac_compile.

The alternative is using AC_RUN_IFELSE, which uses ac_link.


Do you see any other possibility of dropping the "-c" during ./configure?

Please use AC_LINK_IFELSE.  No need for a runtime test that breaks cross compilation.

New changeset 2be983173f45 by Stefan Krah in branch '3.5':
Issue #24543: Use AC_LINK instead of AC_COMPILE in order to prevent false
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2be983173f45

New changeset 8f30776602b4 by Stefan Krah in branch 'default':
Merge from 3.5 (#24543).
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8f30776602b4

I guess we should backport the x87 fix to 2.7.

Works for me.

Thanks!

New changeset 2a3c0ad52b99 by Stefan Krah in branch '2.7':
Issue #24543: Use AC_LINK instead of AC_COMPILE in order to prevent false
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2a3c0ad52b99

Fixed in 2.7, 3.5 and default.  Thanks everyone for the comments.