gh-96761: Fix build process of the clang compiler for _bootstrap_pyth…

…on (gh-96945)

Co-authored-by: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@gmail.com>

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-20-12-43-44.gh-issue-96761.IF29kR.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix the build process of clang compiler for :program:`_bootstrap_python` if
+LTO optimization is applied. Patch by Matthias Görgens and Dong-hee Na.

configure.ac

@@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ then
 fi
 AC_MSG_RESULT($PROFILE_TASK)
 
-# Make llvm-relatec checks work on systems where llvm tools are not installed with their
+# Make llvm-related checks work on systems where llvm tools are not installed with their
 # normal names in the default $PATH (ie: Ubuntu). They exist under the
 # non-suffixed name in their versioned llvm directory.
 
@@ -1828,8 +1828,10 @@ esac
 if test "$Py_LTO" = 'true' ; then
  case $CC in
  *clang*)
- dnl flag to disable lto during linking
  LDFLAGS_NOLTO="-fno-lto"
+ dnl Clang linker requires -flto in order to link objects with LTO information.
+ dnl Thin LTO is faster and works for object files with full LTO information, too.
+ AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-flto=thin],[LDFLAGS_NOLTO="-flto=thin"],[LDFLAGS_NOLTO="-flto"])
  AC_SUBST(LLVM_AR)
  AC_PATH_TOOL(LLVM_AR, llvm-ar, '', ${llvm_path})
  AC_SUBST(LLVM_AR_FOUND)