[New-bugs-announce] [issue35351] LTOFLAGS are passed to BASECFLAGS when using LTO

[Charalampos Stratakis]

New submission from Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak at redhat.com>:

Through configure.ac and this change [0] LTOFLAGS and more specifically -flto is baked into BASECFLAGS when using link time optimizations, which will make this flag propagate to distutils.

[0] https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/69a3f153a92fd8c86080e8da477ee50df18fc0d1#diff-67e997bcfdac55191033d57a16d1408aL1350

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components: Build, Extension Modules
messages: 330697
nosy: cstratak
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: LTOFLAGS are passed to BASECFLAGS when using LTO
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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